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...Negroes' just claim to equality has become all but submerged in the demand for black power, an increasing number of Christian laymen are turning cool toward unqualified stands for civil rights by their ministers and priests. Even congregations that applauded when their clergy marched off last year to Selma have sometimes turned deaf and hostile ears as the main battle over integration has shifted closer to home...
...fissures of dissension widened even more. After a bitter floor fight, the N.A.A.C.P. passed a resolution indicating that it will no longer cooperate with most other civil rights groups. John Morsell, its assistant executive director, confided that the days of unified action among Negro groups, which made possible the Selma march and the march on Washington, are over. "In view of the sharp differences," he said, "unified action just seems unlikely." Some in the N.A.A.C.P., including Philadelphia Branch President Cecil Moore, openly challenged Wilkins' denunciation of black power. "What we need is a few more riots," he said...
...some steady individual customers like Rocketeer Wernher von Braun and the folk-singing Brothers Four, occasionally takes spot orders from others. Last year one of its planes picked up Martin Luther King in Alabama during the Selma march, flew him to a Cleveland speaking engagement, then back to the march. When Trans World Airlines President Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. was unable to get a TWA flight from St. Louis to Washington for a dinner meeting with Lyndon Johnson, an EJA plane picked him up and got him there. EJA got a luminous letter of thanks from Tillinghast...
...cattle prod in his hand and a "Never" button on his shirt, Sheriff Jim Clark twinged the nation's conscience during last year's Selma march. As much as anyone, he personified the Southern inequity that provoked the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. It was, therefore, altogether fitting that Big Jim should be the loser in the first case brought under that...
Runner-up in last month's Alabama primary, Clark got a second chance to keep his job when Dallas County's segregation-minded Democratic executive committee threw out six ballot boxes for "irregularities." The objective was to deny moderate Wilson Baker, Selma's former Public Safety Director, a majority and force a runoff. The discarded boxes, all from Negro neighborhoods, gave Baker 1,412 votes, Clark...