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King is attempting to focus national attention on Selma and on the planned march for Sunday from that city to Montgomery. For this reason, SCLC has opposed all recent demonstrations in Montgomery, except for the march held yesterday...
...Andrew King Young, SCLC's executive director, told a mass meeting here last night, "I want you to take it easy on Wallace for a while, at least until Wednesday. When the marchers come to town from Selma, it's important for them to have a stable environment to come...
...events in Selma and Montgomery have brought attention to two problems faced by the Negro in the South. The first is the deprivation of his right to vote. The second is the denial of his constitutional privilege to demonstrate peaceably without the interference of canes, clubs, horses, whips, or tear...
This clearly is the case in Selma. And there is considerable precedent for the invocation of Section 333. On no less than 55 occasions have United States Presidents used Federal force to quell domestic violence after State officials proved unable or unwilling to act. But states-righters--and there are many of them--moan and wail about a "Federal Police Force" in any state. Their complaints must not make us lose sight of the real issue here: Will justice be administered in Alabama? And in any case, the mere presence of Federal power in that state does not mean that...
...great importance that Federal presence, in the form of Federal Marshals, activated National Guardsmen, or members of the Armed Forces, be established in Selma now. The 50-mile Selma-to-Montgomery march, delayed almost two weeks by police brutality and a Federal court injunction, is scheduled to begin shortly, and unless some agency of the United States government is on the scene to protect the demonstrators, there are certain to be more beatings and more whippings...