Margaret Ann Knott

On September 11, 1971, Margaret Ann Knott, a 19-year-old Black woman, was fatally injured during a sit-in demonstration in Butler, Alabama, when she was hit by a car driven by XXXX, a XX-year-old white man. The demonstration consisted of about 200 people who gathered at the streets surrounding the local courthouse on a Saturday morning to protest longstanding racial inequalities. Despite the tragic nature of this incident, this matter cannot be prosecuted or further pursued. The driver made two statements in which he claimed that as he was trying to escape protestors who were aggressively chasing and pounding on his car, he accidentally drove over the victim who was seated on the road.