Jim Clark (sheriff)

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James Gardner Clark Jr. (September 17, 1922 – June 4, 2007) was the sheriff of Dallas County, Alabama, United States, from 1955 to 1966. He was one of the officials responsible for the violent arrests of civil rights protestors during the Selma to Montgomery marches of 1965, and is remembered as a racist whose brutal tactics included using cattle prods against unarmed civil rights supporters.