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...even to ending prejudice in man's mind." He was the Man of the Year for 1963, appearing on our Jan. 3, 1964, issue as "the unchallenged voice of the Negro people and the disquieting conscience of the whites." At the time of the historic integration confrontation in Selma, Ala., he was on our cover (March 19, 1965) as "the foremost leader of the civil rights movement...
...garbage collectors in the decaying Mississippi river town of Memphis. The plight of the sanitation workers, caused by the refusal of Memphis' intransigent white Mayor Henry Loeb to meet their modest wage and compensation demands, first attracted and finally eradicated Dr. King, the conqueror of Montgomery, Birmingham and Selma...
...South's foremost advocates of social and religious liberalism; of acute hepatitis; in Atlanta. Hallinan's first act after his appointment in 1962 was to order desegregation of schools and other Catholic institutions under his jurisdiction; in 1965, he sent priests and nuns to the Selma, Ala., civil rights march, and earlier this month he bluntly advised Atlanta's citizens to open their neighborhoods "so Negroes can exercise the right of every American to live where he wishes...
...incident sounded reminiscent of Civil Rights' days of the early 1960's: a group of black college students from an all-Negro, Southern college attempting to integrate a segregated business establishment. But the scene was Orangeburg, South Carolina--not Greensboro or Selma--and the climax of the demonstration sounded grimly like the outcome of the summer riots: three South Carolina State students dead and more than 60 wounded by the police and National Guard...
...Farm, an integrated colony of whites and Negroes in Georgia, the book transposes the writings of St. Paul into a modern-day setting, the U.S. South. Galatians thus becomes The Letter to the Churches of the Georgia Convention, while 1 Thessalonians is translated as The First Letter to the Selma Christians...