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...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...
...spirit of Selma, Birmingham and Montgomery was alive and marching again in the South. With an outward joy that failed to conceal their inner anger, blacks were singing, praying and chanting together in a common cry for social justice. Though relatively quiet for nearly two years, they have all along resented the shift of the nation's protest from civil rights to the war and the environment. But the Nixon Administration's Southern strategy, accenting law and order and a slowdown on school integration, rankled deeply. Then came armed peace officers blasting away with guns at Kent State...
...year job with the U.S. Department of Agriculture ("I was a very., very good chemist") to join Martin Luther King Jr. Williams has since become one of the country's leading civil rights leaders. He was field marshal for the Meredith Mississippi march and the march from Selma to Montgomery, as well as last week's march to Atlanta. TIME Correspondent Peter Range kept pace with him for a time last week as Williams bitterly talked about the events at Augusta, Ga., and Jackson, Miss., and the mood of the civil rights movement in their wake...
...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...