Word: hosea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sunday, March 7. Ignoring an order from Governor Wallace forbidding the march, 650 Negroes and a few whites assembled at the Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Selma's Sylvan Street. Leading them were John Lewis, militant head of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (S.N.C.C.), and Hosea Williams, an official of King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Two abreast, many of them laden with bedrolls and knapsacks, the Negroes filed through the back streets of Selma, turned onto Broad Street, and headed for the Edmund Pettus Bridge, which crosses the Alabama River...
...John Lewis, Chairman of SNCC, Robert Mants, SNCC staff, and Hosea Williams, SCLC staff, are leading the march. They are in the process of organizing into companies and squads, with company commanders and squad leaders...
...Augustine Negroes needed a lot of encouragement before they would commit themselves actively. The older generation was reluctant to jeopardize jobs by going to jail, and hesitated to allow the children to miss school to demonstrate. Hosea reached them by appealing to their children. Do the old folks want their children to experience the same deprivations? The old folks had lived their lives--now let the youngsters assert themselves in the world that would soon be theirs. To insure a future of freedom, all Negroes must rise to the cause. With these arguments and his colloquial humor, Hosea elicited adult...
...city. Just that morning, armed with electric "cattle prods" and police dogs, the law had arrested nearly 150 children who had entered a posh hotel dining room asking to be served. A spirited old lady named Mrs. Peabody had also been arrested. With the publicity of these two events Hosea hoped to draw more support from the outside. However, local segregation was proving tough to crack. What little we Negro and white demonstrators achieved here would be a minor advance in the struggle for integration. What we white students contributed, moreover, was useful at the moment, but would lose...
...Hosea's statements touched on an essential moral aspect that prospective student demonstrators should be concerned with. One should not regard civil rights demonstrations as an "Experience"; just one or two participations are worse than not acting at all. As Northerners we are open to the charge of irresponsibility: we can leave the scene of action and resume our normal lives without being subject to the after-effects as the local Negroes are. For instance, Negroes comprise only 25% of St Augustine's population, and are mostly dependent on local white employment...