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...they register. Nonetheless, admits Clarence Mitchell, N.A.A.C.P.'s chief Washington lobbyist, "we need to put in more effort." The most conspicuous absentee from the registration campaign has been Martin Luther King, who for years raised Negro suffrage as his battle cry. Since winning the Nobel Prize, "De Lawd," as his followers call King, has been so preoccupied with global affairs, such as the war in Viet Nam, that he has had little time for the cotton-picker vote...
...novelist, never having written a novel before. Connelly is the man who wrote The Green Pastures, an unforgettable delight that opened on Broadway 35 years ago, ran for 640 performances there and 1,002 more on the road. Its Negro cast spoke in outrageous dialect: "Gangway for de Lawd!" Black angels held fish fries in Heaven and dispensed 10? seegars to newcomers. It might jar contemporary liberals, but Pastures in its day had all the impact of a Negro spiritual; it won the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for drama...
With evening, many of the people was home to supper. At 9 p.m. over packed Beulah Baptist Church, a blocks from Jackson St., where the Ralph Abernathy (SCLC) and For spoke. Finally De Lawd himself area. His speech was the same one that be given in Birmingham, on the Washington March, and in St. Augustina finally he spoke the words the people wanted to hear: "Tomorrow we march in the streets of Montgomery the thousands!" The people rose cheered, believing that tomorrow the would be the victors
Wednesday morning the sky clouded and cleared in easy rhythm. The black around the Jackson St. Church, dark and scrawny the day before, was fat with happy humanity. De Lawd had called and everyone had come--the old wrinkled women, the young, prim schoolgirls, the respected morticians, and the baggy-eyed drunks. Brightly painted umbrellas twirled in the foggy sunlight as on each doorstep a preacher stood and taught nonviolence and the ways of peace...
...When she was two, her Negro nurse landsaked, "Lawd, she's purty as a ladybird," and the name stuck. A ladybird, as it is called in the Southwest, is not a bird at all, but a black-dotted little beetle, otherwise known as a ladybug...