Word: em
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nonviolence. Forman, Willie Ricks, and Ben Ware, all of SNCC, stood on orange crates in the middle of the streets and yelled for silence. Meanwhile Negro teenagers on the sidewalks gathered bricks and bottles and screamed along with many white Northern students, "Get the cops. Don't let 'em get away with it this time...
...that violated a city ordinance against parading without a permit, Lackey always put off arresting demonstrators as long as he could. While city officials clamored for him to make arrests, he told a reporter, "You know I don't want to arrest them. They're just kids, some of 'em...
Selma Sheriff Jim Clark, a big man with balding head and a button reading the antithesis of Lackey. He rules his office an air of pomposity, as his brood of scream and deputy sheriffs hover reverently about radio monitor crackled with the "There's a bunch of 'em with signs head west on Jeff Davis Avenue, toward the houses." Clark flicks a switch on the and drawls, "Find out what they're doin a call me back...
...rally, an old Negro woman pulls you , presses your hand in hers, and implores you "stay so they won't beat us again." Young boys their arms through yours and begin singing We Shall Overcome." At a white rally, a young attendant circles around you and hisses, one of 'em...
Last Thursday, several hundred extremists marched to the capitol in Montgomery. A young white mother in the group pointed to some civil rights demonstrators nearby and said to her three-year old daughter, "There, honey, see the northern nigger-lovers--see 'em! Don't they look like monkeys...