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I am sure you are not going to permit the NAACP to control your state.

— James Eastland Daybreak of Freedom: The Montgomery Bus Boycott (1997)

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At a February 10, 1956 rally of the White Citizens' Council in the Montgomery Agricultural Coliseum

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