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...summer of 1963, Selma, Ala., was embroiled in a voter-registration drive among Negroes. In standard response, local police made arrests on charges that ranged from vagrancy to concealing identity, from inciting to riot and truancy (for the children) to driving automobiles without proper license-plate lights...
Chain of Enigma. In flight from Nazi Germany, she went to Sweden in 1940 through the combined efforts of a member of the Swedish royal family and famed Novelist Selma Lagerlöf, herself a Nobel winner. At 48, the refugee brought with her only an aged mother and the numbness induced by terror. Physically, she was so small that she was at first billeted in a children's home. The daughter of an inventor and industrialist, she had written some poems that were totally commonplace and mostly unpublished. Now, galvanized by the experience of her people, she began...
...Seeking major change in the spirit of Selma in 1967 is unusual in a city ripe for a Watts-like episode. It is a tribute to the moral integrity of Milwaukee's Negro youth and their advisers that they are marching. Your comments reflect upon a man who has done more to promote peaceful change in Milwaukee than any other individual...
...youth. Assigned to St. Boniface Church in 1963 as assistant pastor, Groppi (rhymes with puppy) found himself in the heart of one of the North's most strangely segregated cities-and soon became "chaplain" to the N.A.A.C.P.'s local Youth Council. A summer's march in Selma, Ala., two years ago confirmed him in his militant's role...
...line with his formula, he suggests that faith should start not with speculations about God but with the "relevant data" that man can establish about his own existence. Citing the examples of such diverse figures as Christ, Socrates and Unitarian Minister James Reeb, who was bludgeoned to death at Selma in 1965, Pike argues that man can transcend his "occupation of a limited space-time continuum" by his impact on others. In other words, the existence of heroism and sanctity is evidence that there is a transcendent quality to man's being that points beyond this life...