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...demonstration commemorated the Sharpeville massacre of 68 non-violent demonstrators on March 21, 1960. By putting pressure on private investment in South Africa, the Boston Committee hopes to reduce the 400 million dollars U.S. trade which is supporting the segregationist regime. U.N. and African leaders insist that sanctions on trade are the only alternative to a bloody race war in South Africa...
...with the more substantive drive to achieve equal rights, Selma seemed a natural target to Martin Luther King. The city's civil rights record was awful. There was Clark, the perfect public villain. There, too, was Mayor Joe T. Smitherman, 35, an erstwhile appliance dealer, an all-out segregationist, and a close friend of Alabama's racist Democratic Governor George Wallace...
...Highway 80,400 yards beyond the bridge, was a phalanx of 60 state cops, headed by Colonel Al Lingo, an old crony of George Wallace's and a segregationist of the Governor's own stripe. The troopers stood three-deep across all four lanes of the highway. They wore dark blue shirts, sky-blue hard hats, carried billy clubs, sidearms and gas masks. On the sidelines were Sheriff Clark's possemen, both on horseback and afoot, ready, willing and eager for trouble...
...January 1961, Montgomery's rabidly segregationist Alabama Journal editorialized: "The federal courts are now running the public schools. The courts are gummed up with hundreds of cases as the South tries to resist herding incompetent and inexperienced voters to the polls and race mixing in the school rooms." Last week, in the wake of violence at Selma, Ala., the Journal had a far different message: "By dumb, cruel and vastly excessive force, we have made new civil rights legislation almost a dead certainty; we have stained the state and put the lie to its claims of peace and harmony...
...Late for Segregation. Whether moved by courage or realism, some papers have made surprising changes. Alabama's biggest daily, the Birmingham News, which used to make a practice of parroting the segregationist line, has covered the trouble in Selma fully and fairly and has run some thoughtful analyses of civil rights problems. "Whatever progress this state has made is imperiled when an atmosphere of hatred and fear is allowed to prevail," said the News in an editorial. "That atmosphere is thickened, not dispelled, by intemperate actions of uniformed law officers of the state of Alabama, its counties...