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...Significance of Selma Sir Your cover story on Martin Luther King [March 19] certainly was the most stirring article on civil rights that I have ever read...
...Your description of Col. Lingo's storm troopers' clubbing down defenseless citizens was a vivid picture of Selma's horror. But there are other smaller details that are just as significant. On March 9 more than 50 white Alabamians participated in the march led by Dr. King. One of four white women looking on was heard to remark: "Just what do they want?" An elderly Negro woman standing near by answered, "We just wants to be treated like people." With that, a state trooper who had been standing facing the marchers said, "For the first time...
...sadists of Selma can murder so flagrantly, even with the eyes of the world on them, we may well imagine what it has been like for the Negro when the eyes of the world weren't on Selma! God help them...
...problem arising out of Selma is a product not of the so-called denial of constitutional rights but of vote-greedy politicians, a warped, sensation-seeking press, and the immoral desire to pillory the South of certain groups of so-called reformers and overt agitators...
...four-day pilgrimage climaxes a drive to register Alabama Negroes which was launched from Selma nearly ten weeks ago by King. King has estimated that the march cost his organization about $50,000. Funds come from contributions. King's march into Montgomery came nearly ten years after he began his civil rights crusade with a bus boycott there...