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...FRANCES WEBB Montgomery, Ala...
...SELMA, Ala., Sept. 27--Lilian Gregory, pregnant wife of Negro comedian Dick Gregory, was arrested and jailed along with four other demonstrators after a protest march through Selma this evening...
...running for Governor in 1958, Wallace did not campaign as a diehard defender of segregation, but as a candidate who would work to bolster Ala bama's economy, build better schools and better highways. He was defeated in the Democratic primary by John Patterson (TIME cover, June 2, 1961), who did run on an all-out segregationist plat form. In that defeat Wallace learned a lesson. "They just out-segged me," he said to friends. "They're never going to do that again...
More than 100 state and local police surrounded a church in Selma, Ala., where a mass Negro protest meeting was taking place last night. The law enforcement officials included a special delegation of 50 state troopers under the personal command of Al Lingo, head of the state police...
While thousands attended memorial services across the country for the six Negro children who died in Birmingham, Ala., a week ago, a member of the bombed 16th Ave. Baptist Church spoke at the Roxbury rally...