Word: selma
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After the batterings of Selma and Viet Nam, several assassinations and summers of psychedelic overload, the country needed a warm bath and a bit of soothing. What it got instead was a fresh, hard needlepoint shower from the ranks?indeed, from the home. It was a little too much. Doors slammed, windows rattled shut. The national circuits had temporarily shorted out, and, in the prevailing gloom, the feminist torches looked less like beacons than
...Beyond any doubt, the most important force in the civil rights movement was the Black Church, personified by Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, and organized around the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Who organized the Montgomery bus boycott? Ministers. What did they sing at Selma? Spirituals and hymns. And there is an exception in the world--Latin America, where the Catholic Church has emerged as part of the vanguard movement for freedom. In the name of Jesus, priests and bishops have finally begun to withdraw their support from the murderous re-games of that region...
...behind If, that is, one assumption is true: if when they wake up to the world around them people will then act to make things better, of maybe as important, not act to make things worse. That if they know that is going on in Vietnam, in Selma, in EI Salvador, they will act their bodies to the side the very least, they won't lend their brains and their bodies to the side that has caused the problems in the first place. That if they know about the recklessness of corporations they'll stay away from them. That forecast...
...unabashedly, a coffee-table volume, one that will be used more often as a cocktail-party coaster than as a reference. Glossy and overpriced, it conceals choppy, unimaginative writing behind a startling cover. Perfect for Uncle Sid and Aunt Selma. Despite its shortcomings, however, the book offers revealing first-person descriptions of the fear war can bring without gunshots and the dull evil of obedience without purpose...
...generation's inability to organize politically and take any direct action, for it was not until after their school years that the issues came to a head. "The question of equal rights was a sore one, but it hadn't really sharpened. There wasn't something--such as the Selma march--to gather around," Harwood, recalls. Even if the rising concern with civil rights ignited a dialogue among students infused with firm political convictions, wide segments of Harvard remained undented, James H. Barton '56 mentions the extreme of his own apathy, "You've heard of the 1954 Supreme Court decision...