Word: selma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Student signers of the covenant have contributed about $350 toward the expenses of the five students who flew to Selma Monday to take part in the Montgomery march. The plane fares totaled $600. The expenses of the three Divinity professors who also flew to Selma, are being partially defrayed by fellow Faculty-members...
...Selma marchers returned to Cambridge last night and will discuss the protest demonstrations at noon today in the Braun Common Room of Andover Hail...
Russel G. Davis, lecturer on Education, went to Selma Monday night to in the march on Montgomery out of indignation." He said in an yesterday that the marchers are not turned back until they had about half a mile farther from than they had in Sunday's march. There was a solid line of state troop- one side of the road; the local and posse--known locally as --on the other," he continued. end of the lines were massed a hundred troopers blocking the and half a mile or so of vehicles up behind them...
Davis said that "some of the troopers embarrassed, some were nervous." laughed in relief when King to turn back." He also noted at the marchers "sang a lot louder back to Selma than we had when were leaving...
Last Sunday Selma, Alabama, Negroes began a 50-mile march to Montgomery to protest voter discrimination. The following report was compiled by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee directly from phone calls and field-radio reports made by SNCC staff members from various locations in Selma...