The Nation - News from Jan. 11, 1989
A judge in Montgomery, Ala., convicted state NAACP President Thomas Reed and 13 black legislators on a misdemeanor trespassing charge in their protest against the Confederate battle flag flying atop the state Capitol. Montgomery County District Judge Craig Miller fined each of the 14 defendants $100 plus court costs. The defendants were arrested Feb. 2, 1988, when Reed, at the time a member of the state House of Representatives, and the other legislators marched to Alabama’s Capitol and tried to climb a fence surrounding it in a symbolic effort to remove the flag.
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