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...Tone. If the Negro vote was not powerful enough to thwart the Wallaces' gambit, it managed nonetheless to shake such local despotisms as the Dallas County sheriffdom of Jim Clark, the nationally televised heavy of the Selma march last year, and to settle old scores against the likes of Al Lingo, the onetime state police chief who was humiliatingly beaten in his primary bid to become the sheriff of Jefferson County (Birmingham...
...Dallas County Voters League, "has cost worry, blood, sweat, jobs and lives. It is a privilege he should have had all the time. It is one he should use regardless." In Dallas County many Negroes are bent on ousting racist Sheriff Jim Clark and support his rival, Selma's relatively moderate Public Safety Director Wilson Baker. - The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee under Stokely Carmichael has mounted a door-to-door campaign to keep Negroes away from the primary polls, even if it means the defeat of Negro candidates or sympathetic whites. Carmichael argues that the Negro has no hope...
...churches endorsed this particular strike with the same kind of zeal they gave to Selma? One reason, possibly, was guilt: until recently, the churches had largely ignored both the spiritual and material welfare of California's farm workers. Another reason, certainly, was the growing theological conviction of today's servant church that Christianity must take the lead in supporting secular causes that promote justice and equality...
Knights & Shotguns. Armed and encouraged by the court's rulings, the Justice Department could conceivably move to prosecute under federal law other rights murder cases, such as the sidewalk slaying of the Rev. James Reeb in Selma, the Birmingham church bombing in which four Negro girls died and the killing of Seminarian Jonathan Daniels in Hayneville, Ala. Indeed, FBI agents last week wound up an intense 76-day investigation in Mississippi with the arrest of 14 White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, who were indicted under Section 241 and the 1965 Voting Rights Act in connection with...
With Negroes now enjoying virtually equal registration strength in ten black-belt counties, black candidates hope to win up to 30 primary contests. In a number of races, though, civil rights leaders prefer to manipulate the balance of power. One likely white beneficiary is Wilson Baker, Selma's public-safety director, who is challenging Dallas County's bullyboy sheriff, Jim Clark. Baker's restraint during last year's impassioned civil rights demonstrations may have also won him hefty non-Negro support. The reason: many Dallas County whites blame Clark's cattle-prodding tactics for dramatizing...