Word: selma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...name in the first few pages of most Alabama newspapers is to do bodily harm to a white person. The small number of other endeavors that make the papers are ordinarily consigned to what is known in the trade as the "nigger page" (a compositor for the Selma Times-Journal recently precipitated a demonstration by angry Negroes when he inadvertantly failed to remove a line of type reading "Nigger Page" from that section of the paper...
...Sheriff Jim Clark once cracked, "I don't see how one goddam Red newspaper can be so yellow." enjoyed an occasional tete-a-tete with a well-dressed, soft-spoken Courier reporter. (Exception: A team of reporters covering the first civil rights demonstration in Ft. Deposit, not far from Selma, were surrounded by white mobs twice; a country voting examiner smashed an ax handle through their car windshield; and five carloads of toughs followed them out of town.) A drugstore owner in Linden bought a copy of the paper from two reporters, remarking, "Course, I make up my own mind...
Clark has been in the thick of the Administration's fight for civil liberties. He was the department's troubleshooter during the 1965 Selma voting-rights drive and headed a presidential fact-finding mission after the Watts riots. Though his father dissented from the 1966 Miranda verdict banning confessions obtained without full warnings to defendants of their rights, Ramsey wholeheartedly endorses the Supreme Court's recent liberal rulings on interrogations and confessions. When Congress passed a stiff crime bill for the District of Columbia that he considered reactionary and unconstitutional, he prevailed on Johnson to veto...
...than enthusiastic about Stokely Carmichael's aggressive Black Panther ticket, which went down to defeat. Elsewhere in the state, several Negroes were elected, notably Macon County's Lucius Amerson, 32, a Korean War paratrooper and former postal clerk who became the South's only Negro sheriff. In Dallas County, Selma's public-safety director, Wilson Baker, who acted with memorable restraint during last year's voting-rights demonstrations, was elected sheriff over Incumbent Jim Clark, whose brutal treatment of Negroes shocked the nation...
Stokely Carmichael finally made it to Cambridge. Having surmounted the obstacles of the Cambridge School Committee and a Selma, Ala. jail, the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee will speak on civil rights at 8 p.m. tonight at Briggs Cage. Tickets are on sale to the public for $1.50 at the Coop and at the door; members of the Young Democrats admitted free...