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...year before he was arrested for the nightrider slaying of Mrs. Viola Liuzzo near Selma last March, Alabama Klansman Collie Leroy Wilkins was riding around with a sawed-off shotgun in his car. Stopped by the cops in Hueytown, near Birmingham, Wilkins pleaded guilty to violating a 1934 federal law designed to curb gangsters, which requires registration of such weapons. After a not-too-inquiring probation officer reported that he had a blameless character and Birmingham Federal Judge Clarence Allgood himself decided that Collie's mother "is a real good woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cooler for Collie | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

...Paul Was a Rebel." Nor is Viet Nam the only issue that can bring churchly censure down on a priest. Last summer Archbishop Thomas Toolen of Mobile-Birmingham ordered the Edmundite Fathers to transfer Father Maurice Ouellet from a Negro parish in Selma because he had let his rectory serve as a headquarters for the Selma marchers. At the request of Albany's Bishop William Scully, the Franciscans ordered Father Bonaventure O'Brien of St. Bernardine of Siena College to curtail his civil rights work. And last week the Very Rev. Joseph T. Cahill, president of St. John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: A Question of Freedom | 12/24/1965 | See Source »

Even before the trial got under way in Selma, Circuit Solicitor Blanchard McLeod admitted: "It is a weak case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South: A Dearth of Witnesses | 12/17/1965 | See Source »

Whereupon the jury, which had already pondered the case for 24 hours, retired for three more hours and found three white Alabama Klansmen guilty of federal conspiracy charges in the death of Mrs. Viola Liuzzo, the white mother of five from Detroit, who was shot to death after the Selma-Montgomery civil rights march last spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South: Turn in a Dark Road | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

...Some church leaders are critical of what seems to be its blithe as sumption that God endorses everything about the Negro freedom movement, from Martin Luther King's S.C.L.C. to LeRoi Jones (last spring the center's entire staff and student body dropped everything to march at Selma). Moreover, while its 127 trainees have unquestionably been shaken by their experience there, some questions about the center's relevance remain: not all ministers are summoned to be worker-priests, and there is a vital spiritual life in plenty of conventional parishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clergy: School for a New Creation | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

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