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...press conference earlier in the day, he announced the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which he would begin an intensive registration drive in Selma, next week, later broadening it into a state-wide . He said the effort will culminate in a "freedom election will be used to challenge the legality of the Alabama...
...Justice Department has flown James W. Wiley II '65-3 to Selma, Ala, to testify against four Dallas County officials accused of depriving Negroes of their civil rights...
Wiley, who conducted an adult literacy program for Negroes in Selma this summer, testified Tuesday about his arrest in July which occurred when he sought service at a local restaurant. He was shocked with electric cattle prodders at the time of his arrest, and subsequently spent a week in jail...
...federal lawyers are seeking to enjoin the four officials, including Sheriff James G. Clark, and the city of Selma from "interfering with Negroes in the implementation of the Civil Rights Act." A three-judge Federal panel--apparently the first such panel in Alabama under the Civil Rights Act--will hear the testimony...
...case is the first one the Justice Department has brought in Selma, long a civic rights trouble spot. The Department has been researching it for over a year...