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...soul of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Terrell County. Georgia, one of many Negro churches burned or bombed to the ground. Its mentality was that of sheriff James Clark and other faceless, mindless segregationist law enforcers singlehandedly determined to "keep nigger in his place." And its heart was Selma, Alabama--25,000 proud people marching, hands clasped, and with full throats, chanting old Negro spirituals, on their way to the state capital in a voter registration drive...
...important piece of civil rights legislation, other than the constitutional amendments, in the history of the country." So says Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, referring to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. First proposed by Lyndon Johnson, the act was passed overwhelmingly by Congress after a voting rights drive in Selma, Ala., led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had ended in violent clashes between blacks and white police. The landmark law, which was renewed in 1970 and 1975, abolished literacy tests, forbade any other barriers to the registration of black voters and required six Southern states with a long...
...late 1976 Hinckley went to California. He intended, John Sr. told a friend, to "crash Hollywood." He ended up at Howard's Weekly Apartments, in the seamy Selma Avenue district of Los Angeles-a street market for whores, drugs and every kind of sleaze. Perhaps during this period Hinckley developed his obsession with Actress Jodie Foster. Consider the plot parallels of the movie Taxi Driver, starring Foster as a prostitute and released just before Hinckley left for Los Angeles...
...violence and tradition, failed to take effective action. But when M.L. King agreed to head the Mont-gomery bus boycott people began to muster courage and hope. And only when he had the tactical sense and the courage to face the firehoses and dogs in Birmingham and Albany and Selma and across the South were the mass of Americans moved enough to take concrete action...
...Flute and is at work on the New York City Opera's American premiere of Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen. In addition, he has been making appearances in bookstores to sign copies of a coffee-table retrospective, The Art of Maurice Sendak, by Selma G. Lanes. In the midst of this hectic schedule he paused for breath in his bachelor retreat in rural Connecticut and reminisced with New York Bureau Chief Peter Stoler...