Word: selma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hour-long speech, Dickinson declared that on the recent Selma-to-Montgomery march there was an interracial sex orgy of such proportions as to excite the envy of the most degraded pornographer. According to a batch of luridly detailed affidavits signed by various Alabama policemen and civilians, the marchers, when not marching, were apparently everywhere publicly fornicating, petting, kissing, drinking, exposing themselves and urinating...
Adds U.P.I. Reporter Al Kuettner: "I saw no fornication. This guy is so completely off-base it is just fantastic." Says Selma's Public Safety Director Wilson Baker: "I never saw any of that...
...much of the nation and the world, the South is Selma. And there will be more Selmas: more demonstrations, more violence, more blind resistance to justice, more bitter words hissed between black and white. But there is another South, a region of quiet, solid, if often agonizing, progress. That other South, all too easily overlooked, was not created this year or ten years ago; it was not brought into being only by an act of the Supreme Court or only by the exertions of the civil rights movement. It has long existed in the hearts of some men. But only...
...change must go to businessmen, who were troubled by evidence of economic damage: a sharp decline in the acquisition of new industries and the formation of new jobs, at least partly due to the disastrous publicity provided by the likes of Governor Wallace. Alarmed and irritated by Selma, leaders of Alabama commerce and industry recently called for protection of voting rights and an end to employment discrimination. Anywhere else in the nation, a mere call for compliance with federal law would scarcely merit special approval, but in the Deep South it signifies a marked move toward sanity...
...gesture: he flew to Jonesboro, a small town 160 miles from Baton Rouge, where for three weeks half the 500 students in the Negro high school had been cutting classes and protesting lack of facilities. McKeithen swiftly took care of their grievances, explaining: "I didn't want another Selma." When the Klan protested his sensible action, 15 citizens burned an oil-soaked "Z" at an intersection to express their opinion of the Klan's worth-zero. The Governors' attitude is perhaps best summed up by Georgia's Carl Sanders, who says, "I'm a segregationist...