Word: pettus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Angela greeted Howard Moore-whom she had not seen since the trial--most warmly of all. She kissed Hosea Williams--the shortly, scrappy preacher who led the bloody march to Pettus Bridge at Selma--and let him slide a blacksmith's arm around her. But when she saw Howard Moore, she slipped away from Hosea and, letting her clipboard fall, wrapped her arms around her attorney's neck. "Oh. Howard," she said as she hugged him. Lucky Howard...
...Time learned . . . suggested that King should tone down his criticism of the FBI. King took the advice. His decline in black esteem followed, a decline scathingly narrated by Williams." Besides the obvious attempt to undermine Williams' credibility, Time makes no mention of King's role in the aceldama at Pettus Bridge, or of any other event that might have motivated him to strike out in new directions...
...that King, faced with the choice, initially "copped out." Exemplary of this compliance was King's conduct at Selma, which many black people consider the sell-out of the century because King failed to appear at a march he himself called. The march ended in the notorious bloodbath at Pettus Bridge. "King's response to the clubbing at Pettus Bridge was, 'If I had known it was going to be like that I'd have gone myself.' Which was what the people from SNCC had been driving at all along." King's collapse at Selma was so unrestricted that...