Editing Aliceville, Alabama (section)

====1960====
During the [[civil rights movement]], organizing in small communities such as Aliceville was often more dangerous for activists than it was in larger cities because of their isolation.<ref name=jordan>{{cite book|author=Samuel S. Hill|title=On Jordan's Stormy Banks: Religion in the South : a Southern Exposure Profile|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7SvIR8X9jO8C&pg=PA23|year=1983|publisher=Mercer University Press|isbn=978-0-86554-035-4|pages=23–5}}</ref>  As late as 1965, according to James Corder, a [[Primitive Baptists|Primitive Baptist]] minister from Aliceville, Pickens County had not yet experienced any civil unrest related to the movement.<ref name=jordan/>  Jordan was inspired by the [[Selma to Montgomery marches]] in March of that year to organize a civil rights group in Aliceville, which he called the "Rural Farm and Development Council" in order to avoid scrutiny.<ref name=jordan/>  The group organized protests at the Aliceville city hall to oppose officially sanctioned racism in the city.<ref name=jordan/>

In September 1969 black students held protests against the principal of an all-black school in Aliceville, prompting governor [[Albert Brewer]] to send [[National Guard of the United States|National Guard]] troops into the city.<ref name=wallace>{{cite news|title=Wallace Backed on School Stand: Alabama Legislature Urges Defiance of Integration&mdash;Classes Begin Calmly|date=September 5, 1969|page=1|work=New York Times|author=James T. Wooten}}</ref>  Two of the city's all-black schools were closed on September 4 due to the demonstrations, and they reopened the next day under National Guard supervision.<ref>{{cite news|title=Troops at Alabama Schools|work=New York Times|page=16}}</ref>