Word: selma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sending U.S. Marines to the Dominican Republic is about as tactful as sending the Selma police force to handle a disturbance in Harlem...
...deadlock, the judge declared a mistrial and sent the jury home. And so, last week, in the county courthouse in Hayneville, Ala., ended the murder trial of Collie Leroy Wilkins, 21, who had been charged with murdering Detroit Housewife Viola Gregg Liuzzo on the Selma-Montgomery highway in March...
Overcome. Leroy Moton took the stand and told how he and Mrs. Liuzzo got into the Liuzzo car on March 25 and left Selma just after 7:30 p.m. At about 8 o'clock, Moton was "fiddling with the radio dial, and she was humming We Shall Overcome,'" when "a car pulled up beside us and shot into the car two or three times." When the car came to a stop down the road, Moton shut off the ignition, turned off the lights and waited for five minutes. Soon "a car came back," shone its lights...
Speaking at today's convocation will be Elliot L. Richardson '41, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, Joseph L. Rauh Jr. '22, vice-chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action, Mrs. Amelia Boynton, leader of a voters league in Selma, Ala., and Donald L. Hollowell, a civil rights attorney in Atlanta...
...Verge? How, he asks, can such a God evoke the awe and reverence that is at the heart of religion? Arnold Come of San Francisco Theological Seminary makes his critical point with an example: "Two men, an existentialist and a process theologian, go to Selma. The existentialist goes saying, 'The love of Christ that has been born in me responds to the brutality and the terror, and because it does, I have to go and stand beside my Christian brothers.' Is this really self-sacrificing love? Or is it really self-seeking love? The process theologian goes...