1934Oskaloosa, Iowa, became the first city in the country to fingerprint all of its citizens, including children.1961Gov. John Malcolm Patterson declared martial law in Montgomery, Ala., “as a result of outside agitators coming into Alabama to violate our laws and customs” which has led to “outbreaks of lawlessness.” Those outsiders were the civil rights organizers known as the “Freedom Riders” and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.