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...following excerpts come from an article written by Jonathan Daniels, a white civil rights worker killed in Hayneville, Ala., In August. He wrote the article for the Episcopal Theological Seminary Journal in April, while he was living in Selma. He had come to Selma briefly during the march, returned to school and several weeks later, came back to work in Selma with a fellow student, Judith Upham...
...SELMA, Ala.--Reality is kaleidoscopic in the black belt. Now you see it; now you don't. The view is never the same. Climate is an affair of the soul as well as the body: today the sun sears the earth, and a man goes limp in its scorching. Tomorrow and yesterday sullen rain chills bones and floods unpaved streets. Fire and ice... the advantages of both may be obtained with ease in the black belt. Light, dark, white, black: a way of life blurs, and the focus shifts...
...DESTRUCTION (Dunhill). With a belligerence that makes Dylan seem mild-mannered, Barry McGuire declares the nuclear apocalypse at hand. Enumerating signs of deterioration, from Congress to Selma and Red China, he castigates the entire world. Efforts to ban the song from radio have failed, and kids are buying it at the phenomenal rate...
Dead was Jonathan Myrick Daniels, a graduate of Virginia Military Institute ('61), who was studying for the ministry at Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass. After taking part in the Selma-to-Montgomery march, Daniels had gone back to Cambridge to finish the school year, then returned to spend the summer working with the Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity in Selma. His companion was Father Richard F. Morrisroe, assistant pastor of Chicago's Saint Columbanus Church, who had gone earlier this month to Birmingham to attend the Southern Christian Leadership Conference convention...
...nearby Fort Deposit after they had picketed stores, demanding equal job opportunities for local Negroes. After being held for nearly a week in the county jail at Hayneville, they were unexpectedly released one afternoon last week. As they waited outside the Hayneville courthouse for a ride back to Selma, the group began "singing and demonstrating and creating general disorder," as Lowndes County Solicitor Carlton Perdue put it. Then Daniels, Father Morrisroe and two Negro girls strolled across the street to Varner's grocery store to get something...