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Martin Luther King was first quoted in TIME in 1956 (March 5), when he was leading the boycott ("This is a struggle between justice and injustice") that eventually ended bus segregation in Montgomery, Ala. This is his third appearance on the cover-the first having been in 1957 (Feb. 18) and the second as our Man of the Year on the first issue of 1964. That choice and story brought us 2,500 letters, more than half of them criticizing our judgment, but all showing the intense interest and involvement TIME readers feel in the issue of race relations...
...editorialized: "The federal courts are now running the public schools. The courts are gummed up with hundreds of cases as the South tries to resist herding incompetent and inexperienced voters to the polls and race mixing in the school rooms." Last week, in the wake of violence at Selma, Ala., the Journal had a far different message: "By dumb, cruel and vastly excessive force, we have made new civil rights legislation almost a dead certainty; we have stained the state and put the lie to its claims of peace and harmony; given enough rope, as if they haven...
MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 18--As this city moves swiftly toward a racial explosion, conflicts have arisen in every conceivable faction...
Jimmie Lee Jackson was a $6-a-day Negro woodcutter who lived with his mother, his sister and his grandfather on a patch of red-clay soil outside Marion, Ala. One night last month Jackson, 26, joined a Negro demonstration in Marion. When cops began breaking it up, he and some other Negroes sought refuge in a cafe. State police went in after them. In the melee Jackson was shot in the stomach, and died eight days later...
...sheriff with the nightstick mentality, the glacial rate of voter registration, the Negroes waiting in the rain-all these symbols of disgrace in Selma, Ala., have been in headlines and news pictures for five weeks. But Selma has its assets too, and one of them is Dr. James H. Owens, a peppery, knowledgeable Negro educator who is struggling valiantly to keep the area's only Negro college alive...