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Those words, written by Federal District Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr., galvanized civil rights forces last week into a display that may well become one of the most spectacular events of the Negro revolution. It is this week's 50-mile march from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery to dramatize the Negro demands for voting rights, protected by a force of 1,863 Alabama National Guardsmen, 100 FBI men, 100 federal marshals, and 1,000 U.S. Army troops...
Unsurprisingly, Justice Department lawyers devote an average of 28 months' hard labor to each such suit. In a Montgomery, Ala., case, for example, the Government had to analyze 36,000 pages of voter applications and subpoena 185 witnesses; six lawyers worked a full year just to prepare the case for court. When Congress authorized free Government access to registration records, Mississippi's legislature simply passed a law empowering state registrars to burn their papers. A voting-discrimination suit against officials in Selma was started in April 1961, but it was not until last month that an effective court...
MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 24-- Gras atmosphere prevails tonight among the 15,000 people gathered at Martin Luther King's voting rights three miles from George Montgomery Statehouse...