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...Sending U.S. Marines to the Dominican Republic is about as tactful as sending the Selma police force to handle a disturbance in Harlem...
...deadlock, the judge declared a mistrial and sent the jury home. And so, last week, in the county courthouse in Hayneville, Ala., ended the murder trial of Collie Leroy Wilkins, 21, who had been charged with murdering Detroit Housewife Viola Gregg Liuzzo on the Selma-Montgomery highway in March...
Speaking at today's convocation will be Elliot L. Richardson '41, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, Joseph L. Rauh Jr. '22, vice-chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action, Mrs. Amelia Boynton, leader of a voters league in Selma, Ala., and Donald L. Hollowell, a civil rights attorney in Atlanta...
...gesture: he flew to Jonesboro, a small town 160 miles from Baton Rouge, where for three weeks half the 500 students in the Negro high school had been cutting classes and protesting lack of facilities. McKeithen swiftly took care of their grievances, explaining: "I didn't want another Selma." When the Klan protested his sensible action, 15 citizens burned an oil-soaked "Z" at an intersection to express their opinion of the Klan's worth-zero. The Governors' attitude is perhaps best summed up by Georgia's Carl Sanders, who says, "I'm a segregationist...
...Verge? How, he asks, can such a God evoke the awe and reverence that is at the heart of religion? Arnold Come of San Francisco Theological Seminary makes his critical point with an example: "Two men, an existentialist and a process theologian, go to Selma. The existentialist goes saying, 'The love of Christ that has been born in me responds to the brutality and the terror, and because it does, I have to go and stand beside my Christian brothers.' Is this really self-sacrificing love? Or is it really self-seeking love? The process theologian goes...