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MONTGOMERY, Ala.--The civil order of this town is going fruid, slipping and sliding about, ready to course into anarchy. The melting force is the Student Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee, led by James Forman, who day after day emerges from the Jackson St. Church to urge the drifting worshippers of Martin Luther King to "settle down and think for yourselves. Don't be led by anyone--lead yourselves...
Flanking King was Forman, his face twisted in a faintly childlike grimace. Again and again the photographers shoved him aside to snap a closeup of the doctor. Finally the SNCC field secretary stepped back a foot or two and plucked a shabby suit coat from a friend. With a huff of disgust, he yanked it on and buttoned it on over his soiled blue overalls. For a moment he lagged behind, morose and contemplative. Then, clapping his hands together, he lunged forward, linked arms with King and began to sing. "We Shall Overcome" echoed back through the ranks out into...
...parade reached the county courthouse and the sheriff emerged--the short, squat man who, the day before, had donned a white cowboy hat, mounted a horse, and galloped through a-panicking band of Forman's pickers. He shook hands with King. The crowd cheered the triumph. "We Shall Overcome" rang one again, and then a chorus of "I Love Everybody in My Heart...
SNCC, on the other hand, has led demonstrations in Montgomery every day this week. In an anguished speech after Tuesday's beatings, Forman said, "If we can't sit at the table, let's knock the f-----legs off." The SNCC demonstrations are aimed at disrupting Montgomery enough to force President Johnson to intervene...
...Forman has repeatedly referred to "those crooks in the White House" and has said that Johnson is "a liar" if he does not protect Negroes from police brutality. SNCC has been sending its Northern supporters to Washington, D.C., for protests demanding federal intervention...