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...sometimes murdered. In the early days of the civil rights movement, the law was no protection--rather the reverse. But as young John Lewis, son of poor Alabama farmers, said, "If not us, then who? If not now, then when?" Lewis, who led the marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965, and went on to become a U.S. Congressman years later, emerges as a kind of saint, the best of the best...
...Hilton Head, South Carolina; knocking on doors in Boston to organize hospital workers. At least 30 of them will be winding through the Deep South on a bus tour to reach low-wage health-care workers, stopping along the way at civil rights touchstones such as the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama...
Professor Bell cast his die last week, but the river he crossed was not the Rubicon, it was the Alabama. Last week Derrick Bell crossed over the Edmund J. Pettus bridge, and he crossed if heading back to Selma. He crossed it into Selma because he denied Blacks full freedom of intellectual development and because he accepted racial and gender divisions as the natural order of things...
Twenty-five years ago, in Selma, Ala., club-wielding police attacked civil rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Now the city of 27,000 is again experiencing racial turmoil. Last week 150 black high school students boycotted classes to protest the school board's failure to renew the contract of black Superintendent Norward Roussell. Governor Guy Hunt ordered National Guardsmen to protect students who went to school despite the boycott...
Second Period: 3, D, Pettus (McDaniel, Parish) 10:54; 4, D, Parish (unassisted). Penalties--H, Beverly Stickles (interference) 8:43; D, Parish (checking) 16:55, D, Lori Jacobs (tripping...