Word: selma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just as Selma became a of the civil rights struggle, brouhaha behind the School seems to be casting the plot in the role of symbol of national controversy over urban...
...Alabamian, and a Republican who was appointed to the bench by President Eisenhower, Johnson has probably handled more sticky civil rights cases than any other federal trial judge. More often than not, he has ruled in favor of the civil rights forces -as last spring, when he authorized the Selma-for-Montgomery Negro protest march. Says Johnson: "I'm not a segregationist, but I'm no crusader either. I just interpret...
Regarding "the shortcomings of role of the law in effecting change," Zinn said there were problems. The first is "the gap exists always between law and . What happened in Selma the role of citizens in that gap," he asserted...
Doar, who succeeded Burke Marshall this spring as assistant attorney general in charge of the Juntice Department's civil rights division, has been the principal government representative at the racial crises in Selma, Ala, and Bogalusa...
...Lomax told McKeithen: "Once we get our freedom here in Louisiana, I'm gonna move in and run agin you." Later, at a mass meeting, Lomax said that CORE would bring in "some of the biggest religious names in the world, the same people who went to Selma." He added: "Let them knock some priests and nuns down for a change, let them shoot up on some Jewish rabbis. We're gonna walk through Bogalusa like John walked through Jerusalem...