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Referring to the current voter registration demonstrations in Selma and other Southern cities, Rusher said, "These demonstrations accomplish nothing. It's funny coincidence that the NAACP appeal for financial support is out at this moment...
...believe that the events of Selma bear brilliant testimony to the promise of America. Nowhere else is the attempt to resolve this problem being made with such equanimity, openness, and faith in human goodness in our system of government. I am confident that a further source of pride in America-a just and honorable solution-is forthcoming...
...find your largely negative comments about clergy participation in the demonstrations in Selma and Montgomery [March 26] reasonably factual but unpardonably superficial. We went to Alabama chiefly in response to Martin Luther King's call for help. Responding to desperate calls for help would seem to be appropriate clerical behavior. We went as an act of deliberate identification with those in need whose cause is just, to lend encouragement and support, and hopefully to redeem in part our past record of passivity and neutralism. We went as American citizens deploring and protesting Wallace's disfiguration of American democracy...
Gibes & Guards. The four-day, 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery had itself been an experience, not an excitement. It started on the after noon of Sunday, March 21, with some 3,400 marchers led by two Nobel Peace prizewinners-the Rev. Martin Luther King and Ralph Bunche, now U.N. Under Secretary for Special Political Affairs. In the procession, whites and Negroes, clergymen and beatniks, old and young, walked side by side. There was a blind man from Atlanta on the arm of his 64-year-old mother. There was a one-legged man from Michigan swinging along...
...Hung Up." As night fell, a steady stream of cars were moving along Route 80, carrying demonstrators from Montgomery back to Selma. One of the volunteer drivers was red-haired Viola Gregg Liuzzo, 39, twice-divorced, wife of a Detroit Teamster union official, the mother of five children, aged six to 18, one a 17-year-old married daughter living in Georgia. She was occasionally involved in protest activities, once kept two of her sons out of school more than a month to dramatize her objection to a state law permitting students to drop out of school at 16, which...