Word: selma
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...still lynchings in this county. Within the past two years, a black man has been castrated, a white woman has shot a black male child, and a white doctor who is a member of the KKK has plotted to have the county's black VISTA director assassinated. In Selma (50 miles from here) only a week before I got here, a policeman beat a black man to death on the street...
...SELMA SEGAL Columbus...
...charge of the demonstration the day in 1963 that Birmingham's Bull Connor set dogs on the marchers. But it was as a behind-the-scenes man, a bargainer, that he made his mark. He helped to construct the settlements of racial disputes in Birmingham and Selma and was a negotiator in the hospital strike in Charleston; he was the mediator in Resurrection City who tried to unite blacks, Mexican Americans and Indians...
This is true because blacks have been registering to vote in impressive numbers for the past five years. The starting point: passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, following the police attacks upon Martin Luther King Jr.'s Selma-to-Montgomery marches and the assassination of Civil Rights Worker Viola Liuzzo. Much of the excitement and publicity of those early voting drives is gone, but the campaign has continued - quietly, tediously, but effectively, and with considerable agony for blacks threatened with loss of jobs or welfare benefits if they sign up to vote. In the past four years...
...come because of fear. So we're undergoing an educational process. You know, after the voting-rights bill was passed, the only place where people crowded up by the thousands to register was in Alabama−because of the educational process that took place on the Selma-to-Montgomery march. Mississippi rid itself of much fear in the Meredith march. Now we're trying to do the same thing in Georgia...