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Dancer premiered in May and won the Palme D'or at Cannes; it unsurprisingly was met with considerable boos and has critics and viewers alike divided on its status as groundbreaking art or inane melodrama. The movie centers around Selma (Bjork), a Czech factory and single mother who is gradually going blind. She endures ordeal after ordeal in an attempt to pay for her son Gene's operation, who we are told will develop the same eye disease as Selma. In order to escape the agony and torment of her own worsening condition, she finds relief in musicals. She goes...
...Votes cast for James Perkins last week, making him the first black mayor of Selma...
...Blacks registered to vote in Selma in 1964, when his predecessor, Joe Smitherman, was first elected...
DIED. ALBERT TURNER, 64, civil rights leader at the vanguard of a 1965 voting-rights march from Selma; after his heart stopped before a surgery; in Selma...
...later wrote, "I had come to see early that the Christian doctrine of love operating through the Gandhian method of nonviolence was one of the most potent weapons available to the Negro in his struggle for freedom." The bus boycott, sit-ins, freedom rides and, above all, the Selma march with its bloody Sunday on the Edmund Pettus Bridge showed how right he, and Gandhi...