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...middle-class success symbols will have to march to Watts in all humility, and we're going to have to show these people that we are just as willing to die right here in Los Angeles to help this man reidentify as we are willing to die in Selma." To illustrate the gulf that existed between the Negro "haves" and "have-nots," Negro State Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally recounted an exchange at the riots' height with a boy who was brandishing a Molotov cocktail...
Housewife Viola Liuzzo was gunned down last March as she drove down U.S. 80 to pick up Selma-to-Montgomery marchers. There, too, last week shotgun blasts killed a 26-year-old Episcopal seminarian from New Hampshire and critically wounded a Catholic priest on a street in Hayneville (pop. 800). Both were civil rights workers...
...first they marked Georgia's Sumter County for action, largely because of the recent demonstrations in Americus. But when fast-moving state officials sent Negro registrars to the town and in two days reported 647 Negro enrollments, Sumter was dropped. Alabama's Dallas County, home of Selma and of Sheriff Jim Clark, was a surefire candidate for the list. Another notorious "dead-end county," in Justice Department parlance, was Alabama's Lowndes, where a white civil rights worker, Mrs. Viola Liuzzo, was murdered last spring-and where, until March, not a single Negro was registered. Top priority...
...from the days when Negro college graduates were contemptuously rejected by ill-educated Southern registrars for imagined failure to interpret a fine constitutional point. Surprisingly, there was little outright protest against and no overt interference with last week's registration effort. On the steps of Selma's courthouse, Sheriff Clark glowered across the square at the crowds of Negroes and snarled, "I'm nauseated." Selma's Circuit Judge James Hare, a plantation-bred racist, dolefully described the coming of the registrars as "the second Reconstruction." And in Louisiana's East Feliciana Parish, where less than...
...just as Selma became a of the civil rights struggle, brouhaha behind the School seems to be casting the plot in the role of symbol of national controversy over urban...