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...events at the Silver Moon were more frightening than any of the routine humiliations on the street. Evenings in Selma can get pretty tedious, and on the night that I drove into town Ted had left for a walk. He brought along his camera, and had slyly decided to take pictures of some of Selma's seamier scenes. After episodes of photographing alleys, dual entrances at theaters, and "Motel for Colored" signs, Ted headed to the Silver Moon. About ten minutes after I had finished my greasy coffee there, Ted strolled by. Ted was usually pretty circumspect in his anti...
...steps later, he realized his mistake. He discovered he was being followed, and as he rounded a bend and turned onto Selma's main street, four of the truckdrivers-in-the-window stepped out to greet...
Everyone perked up at this suggestion, and all four joined in. "We're a fixing to kill us a nigger-lover. Let's kill a nigger-lover." This on the main street of Selma, a town of 30,000, at 6 o'clock on a Saturday evening...
After ten minutes, the chanting ring in Selma broke up; no one was hurt. But the incident was valuable as an indication. After it was over, as we sat together in the "house with the niggers," it began to seem comic, but the laughs were strained...
After Ted's adventure in Selma, I felt a little left out. If a civil rights worker's credo was: I am harrassed, therefore I exist, what was I doing? Why didn't any rednecks resent my presence and want to threaten...