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Meanwhile, south of the Mason-Dixon line...Joseph T. Smitherman was the segregationist mayor of Selma, Ala., during the famous 1965 civil rights march, but by all accounts he wasn't the worst of segregationists and played no role in the beatings that occurred. As times changed, Smitherman's politics were right enough to appeal to Selma's white voters and centrist enough that he didn't get thrown out as an anachronism. He was running for a 10th re-election when, on Sept. 12 at age 70, he finally came up on the short end of a vote. James...
...grandiloquence the Rev. Jesse Jackson maintains that "I've never seen such a wholesale machinery of disenfranchisement at work" as what occurred in Florida on this Election Day. It was, he says, "a 10 on a scale of 10" in the degree of voting-rights abuses, worse than Selma, Ala. Though that is an exaggeration, since no one was murdered for the right to vote in Florida during last week's balloting, as they were in Selma, Jackson has a point. In Florida, black college students came to the polls with their registration cards but were turned away because their...
...cancer; in Atlanta. Williams joined the civil rights struggle after taking his sons to a drugstore in 1950s Savannah, Ga., and seeing them cry when he told them they couldn't spin on the soda-fountain stools with the white children. He led the 1965 "Bloody Sunday" march in Selma, Ala., and later turned his efforts to the poor and homeless. Though he won election to local and state offices, he said one of his happiest days was in '63--when he returned to that Savannah drugstore with his sons. They all spun on the stools even after the counterman...
...Poland and what was once the U.S.S.R., in Selma, Ala., and Johannesburg and in countless other places, the catalyst for change has been the very common act of someone saying, "No more!" The longer I live, the more firmly I believe that an oppressed people's rallying cry to revolution is not "Freedom!" but "Enough already!" When people gather under that banner, anything is possible. FRAN HUTCHINSON Brattleboro...
...place Dancer in a genre, one might have to create a new category. A melange of melodrama, pastiche, and musical, the film tries one's patience and pushes viewers to a breaking point, much like Selma. But if we hold on under this mounting tension, then the rewards are almost transcendental. Many people have complained about the shaky shooting of handheld video, the nervous pans and haphazard frames. Also the jump cutting and discontinuity in time also make for an unsettling feeling. But this adds to the experience, the fragility and excitement, as if the film might fall apart...