Color Us Connected: On the history of policing in the U.S.
Guy Trammell Jr. and Amy Miller This column appears every other week in Foster’s Daily Democrat and the Tuskegee News. This week, Guy Trammell, an African American man from Tuskegee, Ala., and Amy Miller, a white woman from South Berwick, Maine, write about police in the United States. By Guy Trammell Jr. In the 1960s. my brother, Ernest, and George Ware, the Tuskegee Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee’s (SNCC) field director, crashed during a police chase while distributing voter registration fliers. Both had broken ribs and glass in their eyes. After another police chase...