Word: selma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout the civil rights struggle in Selma, Ala., and on the march to Montgomery, there at Martin Luther King's side was the Rev. Frederick D. Reese, 35, a Baptist preacher and as president of the Dallas County Voters League (DCVL), Selma's own Negro leader for the past two years. Last week a Dallas County grand jury indicted Reese on three counts of embezzlement, charging him with diverting $1,850 of DCVL funds...
...Western Ave. Baptist Church, two days after the funeral of Malcolm X. The man they mourned was in his own way more of a threat to our social status quo than Malcolm. His name was James Lee Jackson, a black man, a little man, dead--a casualty of the Selma, Alabama civil rights demonstrations. The main speaker at the service was a white man named Bob Zellner. Zellner is a native Southerner who joined the civil rights movement in 1960. He is universally respected...
...Looka There!" On the day of the murder, he said, he had been driving around Selma with Wilkins, Thomas and Eaton. Late in the afternoon they got a warning ticket for speeding from a state patrolman...
...prosecution's case was short and sharp. FBI men and other witnesses confirmed important details of Rowe's story: the bullet that killed Mrs. Liuzzo, and shell hulls found on the highway, came from a revolver found in Gene Thomas' home:* the Klansmen were placed near Selma at the time of the crime through testimony from the trooper who had written the traffic ticket...
...credited Martin Luther King with being responsible for the new bill. When President Johnson signed the bill we all thought, 'Here's a rest period.' Then Selma came...