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...Selma is a city of 29,500 people-14,400 whites, 15,100 Negroes. Its voting rolls are 99% white, 1% Negro. More than a city, Selma is a state of mind. "Selma," says a guidebook on Alabama, "is like an old-fashioned gentlewoman, proud and patrician, but never unfriendly." But the symbol of Selma is Sheriff James Clark, 43, a bullyboy segregationist who leads a club-swinging, mounted posse of deputy volunteers, many of them Ku Klux Klansmen. It was in Selma, four years ago, that the Federal Government filed its first voting-rights suit, but court processes...
...despair. Many elderly bondholders were depending on the securities for retirement income, but the bonds that had been bought as recently as March 1981 for $5,000 sold last week for as little as $700. Robert Kahn, 69, a former court reporter living in Hollywood, Fla., and his wife Selma, 67, had $10,000 invested in Whoops Nos. 4 and 5 bonds. Says he: "I felt secure. That was the whole point of buying the bonds. I didn't want to make extra money. I just didn't want to lose what...
...Jesse Jackson it was a visit laden with symbolism. Eighteen years earlier, the black leader had dodged police horses and clubs with Martin Luther King Jr. on the bloody civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery. An apoplectic Governor George Wallace had closed the capitol, which brazenly flew a Confederate flag, to prevent the marchers from delivering a petition protesting voting discrimination. Back in Montgomery last week, Jackson was welcomed graciously by Wallace, who served him pecan rolls on a silver tray and iced tea in a silver pitcher on the sun porch of the Governor's mansion...
...blacks nationwide, Washington's win was a symbol of the fruits of political participation. "This is the most significant black political movement since the Selma-to-Montgomery march" 18 years ago, said Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson. RIZZO IS NEXT read a banner at the victory celebration. Indeed, if Wilson Goode, now well ahead, beats former Mayor Frank Rizzo in next month's primary in Philadelphia and goes on to become mayor, the leaders of four of the nation's six largest cities will be black, an impressive buildup of political muscle...
...Selma M. Andrews '38, who hails from Rockport, Mass., remarked that one reason she attended was that "I just enjoy coming to the big city." She added, "It's so nice to be surrounded by bright people...