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King will address the marchers at 15 p.m. tomorrow, just before the on the Canitol begins. Also on making will be James Farner, John Lewis, Roy Wilkins, Ralph Bunche, and others. "Reports from other centers of civil rights activity--Tuscaloosa, Marion, Birmingham, and Selma will also be presented...
Folksinger Pete Seeger also joined the march today. He said that he had been kept busy writing down songs indigenous to Selma to be published in Broadside magazine...
...said, clapping me on the shoulder. in Montgomery, we ate most of our the College Inn, a Negro cafe owned by young couple who work a 16-hour day. They worship Dr. King and befriended us immediately. One evening we were drinking beer there and discussing the prospective Selma-to-Montgomery freedom march. A middle-aged Negro, who had occupied another table, rose to leave. As he passed our table, he leaned into the conversation and muttered, "Go ahead and march, but look out. That's all, just look...
...hours debating the ethics of non-violence. The middle-aged man said it was unnatural to stand still while troopers flailed at you with their billy sticks. "No one can do that to me," he insisted, "No one." But he considered it equally unnatural to marhh defiantly from Selma to Montgomery "without first reasoning with the white folks along the way. Those folks is mean, sure, but no one ever told them...
...former inhabit the relatively wealthy Selma suburb where Mayor Joseph Smitherson lives. His neighbors lined the curbs last Friday as 300 silent demonstrators were arrested for picketing Smitherson's home. The onlookers were well-dressed. They didn't taunt the demonstrators and, knowing I was a reporter, tried to reason with...