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...born on a plantation and has never been able to forget it. "These bleeding hearts who dash down here - all they've done is read the Declaration of Independence and think they can solve this problem," he once said. As he sees it, the racial conflict in Selma stems from the fact that most of the town's "Nigras" are Ebos and Angols, which he believes are the two most backward tribes of the six from which all U.S. Negroes are descended (the others, according to Hare: Burburs, Kaffirs, Gullas and Guineas). The judge is convinced that Ebos...
Last week Judge Hare addressed an allwhite, 18-member Selma grand jury investigating the March 9 murder of Boston's Rev. James J. Reeb. After the jury heard testimony from ten witnesses, Hare began his charge by reviewing Selma's problems for the past two years and attributing them all to the fact that a cabal of civil rights groups, the Justice Department and the Department of the Army had "selected Selma for assassination back in the fall...
...lead paragraph of a recent story in the Atlanta Times read: "Did Dr. Martin Luther King's organization recruit civil rights mercenaries for the Selma-to-Montgomery march with offers of up to $14 a day, plus food...
Fair reporting would also advance the movement in the Negro community. Up to now, the civil rights revolution has been only a series of spectacular but localized flare-ups. Each local protest draws the best leaders from other areas. For instance, the Selma March and its preliminaries virtually drained Mississippi of its seasoned civil rights workers. Consequently, the Mississippi Negro community lost contact with the ideas, plans, and spirit of the revolution. However, had the Mississippi press reported the Selma situation fairly and fully this would not have been the case. An objective, Southern newspaper would go far toward knitting...
Safely back in Selma, the mayor thought he saw some irony in the affair. In an interview printed in the Selma Times-Journal, he said: "Fate plays some strange tricks. All of Selma, in fact the entire nation, has been flimflammed by the so-called civil rights movement for more than ten weeks. Then I went to Washington to televise the real truth of the Selma story and we got taken by a glib-tongued Negro...