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Angela greeted Howard Moore-whom she had not seen since the trial--most warmly of all. She kissed Hosea Williams--the shortly, scrappy preacher who led the bloody march to Pettus Bridge at Selma--and let him slide a blacksmith's arm around her. But when she saw Howard Moore, she slipped away from Hosea and, letting her clipboard fall, wrapped her arms around her attorney's neck. "Oh. Howard," she said as she hugged him. Lucky Howard...
...hardly looks like the usual equipage for a bishop who was a slum priest and marched at Selma: a 70-ft., three-bedroom, three-bath cabin cruiser anchored in San Francisco Bay, its brass-filigreed bow and mahogany-planked deck gleaming in the sun. But for California's boat-loving C. Kilmer Myers, the Daring will serve as a year-round home-and Myers is paying the reported $50,000 price out of his own pocket. When Myers was elected to the see of California in 1966, after the resignation of the late James A. Pike, he inherited...
...current issue of the Exceptional Parent, Allan's father, William Schenkein, writes a tribute to his son. Patiently, Schenkein and his wife Selma taught him to feed, dress and look after himself and sent him to special day schools where he learned the rudiments of reading, writing and arithmetic. Now Allan travels alone by public bus to a simple job doing light factory work in a Denver agency for the retarded. More important, he has become a "sturdy, happy, friendly, cooperative person with a good sense of humor, good manners and a good sense of responsibility...
...sister, having passed the Elvis Presley Fan Club stage, played a lot of folk music in those days, music which captured the liberal self-righteousness that grew out of the freedom rides of Selma and Birmingham. "The answer," my sister and her friends were told, "is blowin' in the wind." "The times, they are a-changin'." The message of the music was: Don't give up; we're winning. Today may look bleak, but "see what tomorrow brings...
...other blacks for not taking a more militant role in their struggle, but there was never any doubt where he stood or how he felt. Bunche walked his first picket line for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1937. He joined the march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., six years ago. At high school in Los Angeles, Bunche was valedictorian of his graduating class, but had been refused admission to the school's honor society because of his race. Years later he turned down Harry Truman's offer of appointment as Assistant Secretary...