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...SELMA, Ala., Sept. 27--Lilian Gregory, pregnant wife of Negro comedian Dick Gregory, was arrested and jailed along with four other demonstrators after a protest march through Selma this evening...
Foreman also asked Attorney General Robert Kennedy to invoke the Civil Rights Act of 1960 to free from jail some of the demonstrators arrested in Selma since the beginning of a drive to register voters earlier this month. SNCC officials charged that some demonstrators were forced to sleep on concrete floors and others were fed only bread and water while in jail...
Officials of several civil rights groups are now on their way to Selma to inspect the situation. SNCC officials issued an invitation to any interested groups to come observe conditions in Selma while the registration drive continues...
More than 100 state and local police surrounded a church in Selma, Ala., where a mass Negro protest meeting was taking place last night. The law enforcement officials included a special delegation of 50 state troopers under the personal command of Al Lingo, head of the state police...
...addressing the meeting of 600 youths and 500 adults when the police surrounded the building. Worth Long, Dallas County coordinating secretary of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating, estimated in a telephone interview that in addition to the 50 state troopers, about 35 to 40 deputized townsmen and 15 local Selma police officers were outside the church...