Word: selma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Negroes now enjoying virtually equal registration strength in ten black-belt counties, black candidates hope to win up to 30 primary contests. In a number of races, though, civil rights leaders prefer to manipulate the balance of power. One likely white beneficiary is Wilson Baker, Selma's public-safety director, who is challenging Dallas County's bullyboy sheriff, Jim Clark. Baker's restraint during last year's impassioned civil rights demonstrations may have also won him hefty non-Negro support. The reason: many Dallas County whites blame Clark's cattle-prodding tactics for dramatizing...
...Clark took over as minister in 1964, he warned parishioners that he was committed to a ministry "of witness in the world." He got a number of parishioners to invite Negro children from South Boston's Roxbury slum to be their guests. When Clark decided to join the Selma march, parishioners chipped in to help pay his expenses; after he returned, they took the lead in setting up a Fair Housing Committee in Dover to prepare for the day when Negroes might afford to live there. Clark is "a very up and doing young man," says Miss Amelia Peabody...
...comptroller and came in second. Though he lost a leg in World War II while serving as an artillery-spotter pilot, Orin is hyperactive in a multiplicity of good works, ranging from civil rights to rehabilitation of the physically handicapped, stumped seven gallant miles on crutches in the Selma-Montgomery march last spring. A former history professor and publisher of small newspapers, Lehman is now chairman of a group of radio stations...
...Davis' civil rights record. While almost every other minister and priest in Washington was encouraging the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, Davis denounced it because "our way of life is threatened" by demonstrations that challenge rule by law. After Unitarian Minister James Reeb was killed in Selma, Davis declared that those who organized the demonstrations there shared in the guilt for his death. Davis was one of the few prominent Washington clergymen who refused to sign a pledge to open membership of their churches to anyone regardless of race. National City is only nominally integrated...
Under Day's direction. Christ Church sent parishioners to the March on Washington and the March on Selma. It has also sponsored a conference on Religion and Race, and currently tutors Negro children...