Civil rights groups publish "Heed Their Rising Voices" full-page ad in the New York Times depicting police violence against protesters

A coalition of civil rights leaders and supporters published a full-page advertisement in the New York Times titled "Heed Their Rising Voices," describing police violence against civil rights protesters in Montgomery, Alabama, and appealing for donations. The ad contained several minor factual errors about specific incidents. Montgomery Police Commissioner L.B. Sullivan, not named in the ad but responsible for the police force it criticized, sued the Times and four Black clergymen named as endorsers for libel, claiming the errors defamed him personally.