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...worst civil rights violence in months broke out. About 400 Negroes started to march from the Zion Methodist Church to the town jail, protesting the arrest of a fellow worker. Waiting outside the church were eight Marion cops, 50 state troopers, a bunch of redneck bums-and Selma's Sheriff Clark, in civilian clothes but carrying a billy club...
...much of mankind the dream has seldom been as fervent -or as elusive-as it is today. History's greatest tyranny enslaves half the globe; science and technology offer not only the promise of poverty and hunger conquered but also the threat of civilization destroyed. Each day, from Selma to Saigon, brings evidence that man exists in a climate of risk. Last week the United Nations, which had earlier designated 1965 as International Cooperation Year, reached a stalemate and adjourned for six months...
...sheriff with the nightstick mentality, the glacial rate of voter registration, the Negroes waiting in the rain-all these symbols of disgrace in Selma, Ala., have been in headlines and news pictures for five weeks. But Selma has its assets too, and one of them is Dr. James H. Owens, a peppery, knowledgeable Negro educator who is struggling valiantly to keep the area's only Negro college alive...
Owens, erect and brisk at 64, readily concedes that his Selma University is wildly misnamed. It is not a full college, much less a university, since only its three theology students study for four years. It cannot get accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools even as a junior college, because it has no science building, pays its faculty $1,000 less than the required minimum of $4,500, and has no teachers with master's degrees in science, mathematics, English, business or social science. Owens' problem is money. In fund raising, he says, "you always...
...Looked & Left." Owens came to Selma U. as president in 1956 after 26 years in education. Son of an Acme, N.C., factory fireman, he worked at railroad jobs to finance his chemistry and French studies at Richmond's Virginia Union University. He later earned a master's degree in psychology at the University of Michigan. He taught at Mississippi's Tougaloo College and for 13 years at Leland College in Baker, La., becoming its president. When he first saw Selma U., Owens recalls, "I looked, turned around and left." Then, after deciding that the president...