Word: selma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This was the tragedy of the movement during the years of blood and dreams at Montgomery, Atlanta, Albany, and Birmingham; this remained the tragedy when the dream was fading at St. Augustine; and would still be the tragedy at bloody, dreamless Selma...
However by examining King's career, Williams demonstrates that these were new directions, collineations not taken or even visible to the man the media credited with having steered black people to their "victories" at Montgomery, Birmingham, Selma, and the other scenes of the black liberation struggle of the '50's and '60's. Thus, crucial to Williams's conception of the King phenomenon is the growth of Martin Luther King's awareness and sense of responsibility which together with his personal courage made him the man and the figure which the white press and his own ego had once convinced...
...recount this bit of the sad history of the old left because it is appropriate to Mayday in 1971, in a way far more appropriate than talking about the Moratoriums, or marching in Selma, or Vietnam Summer. Because Mayday was the first national mass action of the revolutionary new left. Mayday seems to me to have been a success, although its success remains problematical. It raises many questions for me about what defines success or failure for the movement right now. These questions reflect my own doubts and confusion and personal feelings. They certainly have no more legitimacy than anyone...
...Citizens Concerned for Life is a Methodist, Dr. Fred Mecklenburg. The Rev. Charles Carroll, an Episcopal priest who is chaplain to the University of California Medical School at San Francisco, says his involvement is a natural outgrowth of his other liberal beliefs. "Men who have been with me in Selma and who opposed war with me and have known me to speak out against capital punishment could not quite figure out how I could get into this conservative bag by being against abortion," he says. "But to me all these positions fit into one bag: you can't respect...
Finally, there is a mission project run by the Presbyterian Church. Unfortunately, this program is incompetently run and very possibly corrupt. The minister running the program is black and has four cars, a beautiful new home in Selma, and a black servant. He spends little time in Wilcox County and really remains apart from the people he is supposed to be helping. Much evidence indicates that he and some black school principals are working together for their own personal benefit. For example, some principals were paid three times over for school lunches this summer-once by the federal government, once...