Word: marches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That tolerance was not always so evident among the marchers. "By the time we're through in B.C.," cried March Coordinator Hosea Williams, "white folks gonna say, 'Where's Dr. King? Wake up, Dr. King!' These white folks killed the dreamer, but we're gonna show these white folks what become of the dream. The poor people are marching to challenge the Pharaoh." Led by Williams and the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, 42, successor to Martin Luther King, the poverty pilgrims wound through back-country roads in buses, battered cars and behind farm wagons drawn...
...contrast, the route of the Southern procession echoed with memories of earlier clashes in the civil rights cause. Passing through Selma, Abernathy paused beside the silver span of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, scene on "Bloody Sunday" (March 7, 1965) of a club-flailing confrontation between King's marchers and Sheriff Clark's lawmen. During a speech recalling King, Abernathy suddenly fell silent and let the tears roll down his cheeks. Then a huge Negro woman began singing: "Jesus-got all the power...
...intolerable burden of contrition or shame. "I came to the conclusion that our country is very far from what we say it is in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution," says Alan S. Traugott, 44, of Glen Ellyn, Ill., a white suburb west of Chicago. In March, this conviction led Traugott to resign his five-figure income and position as manager of the Sears, Roebuck store in Englewood, a Chicago neighborhood that is predominantly black. Now jobless, he intends to dedicate himself full time, in any way he can, to brotherhood between the black and white communities...
Into Open Swampland. The Communists tried to reinforce their infiltrated units inside the city; they massed troops that had marched overnight from Cambodia in groups of five and six and attempted to slip them through the ring of allied troops around the city. One group of Viet Cong women dressed in semimilitary garb was captured as it brazenly tried to march across a bridge into Saigon. Communist units approached Saigon from three directions and everywhere were beaten back. One force coming from the west was forced by U.S. armor into open swampland, where they were cut down by jet fighter...
...grip on the reins of government is not yet weak enough to threaten him with immediate ouster. Though Labor has lost the last seven Parliamentary by-elections in a row, it still holds a 73-vote majority in Commons-down 24 from its 97-seat edge after the March 1966 elections. Parliament's term runs until the spring of 1971. Barring an unlikely uprising inside the Labor Party, Wilson can govern until then, even though the majority of Britain's electorate has swung clearly to the Conservatives...