Word: sclc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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James Bevel, an SCLC minister who wears overalls and an embroidered skull cap, pushed his way through the crowd shouting pleas for nonviolence. Forman, Willie Ricks, and Ben Ware, all of SNCC, stood on orange crates in the middle of the streets and yelled for silence. Meanwhile Negro teenagers on the sidewalks gathered bricks and bottles and screamed along with many white Northern students, "Get the cops. Don't let 'em get away with it this time...
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
...Reverend Richard E. Mumma, speaking for the United Ministry, said the action had come as "part of the deep sense of moral conscience and offence at what went on in Selma." He noted that until the SCLC asked for help, the United Ministry had been discouraging individuals from going to Selma because of the need for disciplined, organized action there...
...Andrew King Young, SCLC's executive director, told a mass meeting here last night, "I want you to take it easy on Wallace for a while, at least until Wednesday. When the marchers come to town from Selma, it's important for them to have a stable environment to come...
...Negroes are divided as well. Most have not participated in the local movement, due to fear and apathy. Those who do participate, however, seem to be disenchanted with non-violence. Twice in the past three days. Negroes have nearly assaulted police lines, but they were restrained by SNCC and SCLC leaders...