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As Hamer and her associates prepared to leave, they saw that police officers had surrounded the old school bus in which they had traveled to the courthouse. Hamer later described the scene in vivid detail: “By the time the eighteen of us going in two by two had finished taking the literacy test—now there’s people, mind you, there that day with
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Coming through and out of Grand Central, I experienced something like “alien thought” for the second time in this place. It was exotic, amoral, strangeness; a weird mix of color and shape-sifting sci-fi scenes. Then there was something like “snare drum shamanism,” where I could hear and see the buzzing rolls of wooden sticks on a tight drum head,
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Thanks also to NOPD who pressed a loaded pistol to the back of my head as I lay facedown on a posh French Quarter hotel floor in a case of “mistaken identity”—you introduced me to the city too.
