Word: selma
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Another indication of a possible change was King's announcement that the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, of which he is the president, would begin an intensive voter registration drive in Selma, Alabama, next week, and in the following months this drive would be extended throughout the state. He said that they would also conduct a "freedom election," the results of which would be used to challenge the legality of the Alabama state legislature. The role King plays in Selma will probably reveal whether or not King will move beyond the role he played in Montgomery nine years...
...press conference earlier in the day, he announced the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which he would begin an intensive registration drive in Selma, next week, later broadening it into a state-wide . He said the effort will culminate in a "freedom election will be used to challenge the legality of the Alabama...
Wiley, who conducted an adult literacy program for Negroes in Selma this summer, testified Tuesday about his arrest in July which occurred when he sought service at a local restaurant. He was shocked with electric cattle prodders at the time of his arrest, and subsequently spent a week in jail...
...federal lawyers are seeking to enjoin the four officials, including Sheriff James G. Clark, and the city of Selma from "interfering with Negroes in the implementation of the Civil Rights Act." A three-judge Federal panel--apparently the first such panel in Alabama under the Civil Rights Act--will hear the testimony...
...case is the first one the Justice Department has brought in Selma, long a civic rights trouble spot. The Department has been researching it for over a year...