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Thirteen Black members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) are arrested after staging a sit-in demonstration with a list of demands, in the chambers of the Dallas City Council.
1972 (Nov 14)
Thirteen Blacks, members of the Dallas, Texas, chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, were arrested on charges of disrupting a public meeting after they staged a sit-in demonstration in the chambers of the Dallas City Council. George Holland, spokesperson for the SCLC group, read a list of demands which included the resignation of Dallas Mayor Wes Wise, Police Chief Frank Dyson, and City Attorney Alex Bickley; the arrest of three officers who were recently cited but exonerated in the slaying of local Blacks; and a percentage of city jobs commensurate with that of the city's Black population. Police officers arrested the group before Holland could finish reading his demands.
References:
- • Hornsby, Alton. Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.