Word: selma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next day, in the whitewashed courthouse, Klansman Eugene Thomas, 43, one of three men charged with murdering Detroit Housewife Viola Liuzzo near Selma, faced a jury that included eight Negroes. It was the first racially mixed criminal jury in local history, the result of a federal court order that Lowndes County, which is 84% Negro, include a reasonable number of Negroes on its venire lists. But the Negroes were carefully screened, and turned out to be, in Flowers' bitter words, "nothing more than Uncle Toms." Despite impressive circumstantial evidence -an FBI ballistics expert testified that the bullet removed from...
...home in the asphalt jungle than the pulpit. He and his wife Katie Lea had no children, but they adopted a Negro boy (now grown up and in the Peace Corps) and two Koreans. Myers has been in Michigan since 1965, took part in last year's Selma march...
...assistant pastor of St. Boniface's, a church with an almost all-Negro congregation in the heart of the city's "Inner Core," or black ghetto. The priest has made the Negro's problems his own; he participated in last year's famous Selma march and made frequent trips to Mississippi to carry food, books and clothing to civil rights workers. Before the picketing of Judge Cannon's home, he had become well known in Milwaukee-and earned a reprimand from his ecclesiastical superiors-for organizing a four-day boycott of public schools to protest...
...After I had read your perceptive story on South Africa [Aug. 26], an ugly question kept bothering me: how many white Americans from Cicero to Selma would welcome apartheid policies here? As a newcomer to this country, I am struck by too many unhappy similarities in attitude between white South Africans and Americans. I hope that with the aid of enlightened governmental legislation within the next generation, I shall never again hear statements similar to the one made by a four-year-old neighborhood child to the effect that she is glad not to be colored because "Negroes aren...
...Negro civil rights workers, Cicero, Ill. (pop. 70,000), is a symbol of Northern discrimination-a Selma without the Southern drawl. The last time a Negro tried to live in Cicero, in 1951, city police harassed him, then did little to quell three days of rioting as mobs burned his possessions and wrecked his apartment. Some 3,000 National Guardsmen finally restored order but, from that day to this, no Negro has openly sought residence in the town that gave Al Capone haven, a suburb of Chicago that is largely populated by blue-collar workers of East European extraction...