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Can you believe that __ 500 __ people were __ squeezed __ together in one __ small cell __? Believe it! In Newton County, Covington, Georgia, many African-Americans were arrested and abused during the 1970 civil rights movement. The individual cells were smaller than a one bedroom apartment in the city, no one can barely move around in there. The inmates were paired of four, so you had four people in that small cell. The majority of the African-Americans arrested were most likely put in jail for just walking down the street. When arrested the officers would beat them or in other words hurt them, African-American women were sometimes arrested also because of there Glorious Afro's so at times they were mistaken as men. A lot of civil right leaders were arrested during the day and at night because the officers figured that taking away the leaders would keep the citizens from marching or expressing their voices. In other words obviously they didn't stop the expression, the voice for all colors to be equal. = = = = = -Micah (one of the Ind. 3) =