Word: davises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Davis said that "some of the troopers embarrassed, some were nervous." laughed in relief when King to turn back." He also noted at the marchers "sang a lot louder back to Selma than we had when were leaving."
The unpleasantness did not occur on march, but in the town," Davis "Guys hanging around stores would stand in your way when you tried to buy something. They would ask what we thought we were doing there," he went on. "I replied that this is my country, too."
The major doubts in Davis' mind were, first, whether he was prepared to spend six months in prison if he were arrested for disobeying the injunction against the march, and, second, whether he, as an ex-Marine, could remain non-violent if he was attacked.
At the meeting before the march, a Harvard student gave "an admirably reasoned plea," Davis said, not to go against the Federal government. Davis complimented him on it, but, deciding to go ahead anyway, told him, "you're 25; you've only waited 25 years for them to go. I...
Davis was impressed most by the "tremendous courage of the local Negroes and the while Alabamans who joined in the march." He said that the out-of-state marchers should be given credit, but that they had, with some reason, been viewed by the local workers with little more than...