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Wood announced that $19,796 of a projected $100,000 had been raised to pay for the march to Montgomery and to sponsor SCLC's summer project. Hosea Williams, one of King's assistants, will visit Harvard April 24, to recruit students for SCOPE (Summer Community and Political Education), which will work on voter registration, poverty, and education...
...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...
...Harder. In Montgomery, lawyers met in Judge Johnson's courtroom to thresh out the claims and counter claims that had beclouded the week. Hosea Williams testified that on Sunday he had heard Sheriff Clark shouting to his deputies: "Go get them niggers-go get them goddam niggers!" Questioned closely about the charges that bullwhips were used, Williams said that he saw five
...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...