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...Asian hate and discrimination completely escapes me. Despite feeble disclaimers, it smacks of the smug American, caught again in embarrassing racial strife, chortling defensively: "Ah ha! You see, those sanctimonious Asians are just as ugly, prejudiced and hateful as we Americans are!" One wonders whether the American Negro of Selma, Ala., would fully agree with your sweeping judgment that "America's problems are subject to a system of social and legal redress." At best it has been a spotty "system," hundreds of years in coming. There is little pride, and small comfort, in trumpeting with such profundity that other...
...Washington, all bars and most restaurants close at midnight on Sunday. It was well after midnight on Sunday, April 4, when Joseph T. Smitherman, 35, the race-baiting mayor of Selma, Ala., and his home-town friend, Attorney Joe T. Pilcher Jr., 35, decided they were hungry and thirsty...
Waiting& Waiting. Race Horse quickly convinced the Selma pair that he knew of an after-hours spot suitable to their needs and took them in a taxi to the Anchor, a respectable-looking apartment building a mile away. In the building, Edwards told them, was "a club where Congressmen go," and he would need some cash for membership dues. Mayor Smitherman gave him some money, and Race Horse left the two Southerners after promising to return with the membership cards...
...hours later Race Horse was arrested, after he bragged at a crap game that he had conned the mayor of Selma. He was charged with grand larceny by trick. Police contacted Smitherman and Pilcher, and they allowed as how they were missing some money...
...writer of the paper distinguishes among three kinds of marches: marches with policy objectives (the March on Washington), marches to focus public opinion on less defined goals (the Selma March), and "those which primarily demonstrate the commitment and concern of the marchers" (traditional Easter peace-marches). Tomorrow's march is not the first kind, because there is no policy objective in the legislative sense, such as the Civil Rights Bill. It is not the second kind, because it has a longer-range objective than the temporary focusing of public opinion. It is the third kind: The marchers will simply...