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SATURDAY, MARCH 20
March Sunday Continued from Pare 1
Tuesday’s somber march in Montgomery in repudiation of state troopers’ usage of chains and whips to turn back a rights procession Monday. King and his followers have been seeking such a permit since March 7 when a throng of his believers were bombarded with tear and nausea gas shot into their midst by club and whip-wielding mounted
troopers in Selma.
Negroes pleaded with officials five days before their re-
Tuesday’s
Missionary Baptist. All sympathizers are invited to join. King’s telegram, probably one of many issued to North-
ern ministers, read:
“Within the past 24 hours both the President of the U.S. and the Federal Judiciary have spoken affirmatively of the
cause for which we struggle, quest was granted
Now is the hour for citizens pilgrimage ended at the Montall over this land to make their gomery County Courthouse personal witness. The freedom where more than 3,000 persons of suffrage and assembly are milled around outside while fundamental to our tradition. I King dumped complaints of pohereby invite you to join with lice brutality In «he laps of
me in a march to the State county authorities.
Capitol at Montgomery, Ala., It was during this time that which begins from the Browns Johnson issued his injunction Chapel Church in Selma, Ala., and a heartened King stood been Sunday, March 21 at 1 p.m.” fore the throng and proclaimed:
The “opposition” of hostile “I have a statement to make
law enforcement officials who that will make us all glad, have victimized peaceful pro- Judge Johnson has just ruled testers with brutality in past that we have a legal and conweeks was removed Tuesday by stitutional right to march from
U.S. District Judge Frank M. Selma to Montgomery.”
Johnson with a sweeping order THIS MARCH, in sharp congranting permission for the trast to Monday’s melee, was demonstration. void of violence. In a pelting
IN ADDITION, it- warned rain, the interracial gathering
segregationist Gov. George .tepped to the chant of freeWallace against using state dom songs along a route which police for “harassing, arrest- included the state capitol where ing, threatening or in any way about 100 green-helmeted state interfering with the efforts to conservation officers stood march or walk, or marching or guard to ward off state propwalking. erty trespassers. A city police
The injunction was specifical- escort was provided,
ly aimed at Dallas County Upon reaching the courtSheriff Jim Clark and Highway house, King told his cheering Patron Chief A1 Ling who have followers, “We come here this proven themselves die-hard ex- afternoon because we do not ponents of police brutality. like what happened in Mont-
It came on the heels of gomery Tuesday. No longer
'WE SHALL OVERCOME': Principals participating in memorial services Friday night at St. John's Missionary Baptist Church for Rev. James Reeb of Boston who died last week after suffering a severe beating by whites in Selma, Ala., sing "We Shall Overcome" to a packed audience. Pictured (left to right) are David Goldstein, director of the Jewish Community Relations Center of Indianapolis; Father John LaBauve of St. Rita's Catholic Church; Rev. Andrew J. Brown, pastor of St. John's; Rev. Robert Smith of Riverside Methodist Church, and an unidentified minister. Both Rev. Brown and Smith recently returned from Selmo. (Recorder photo by Jim Burres)
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Linnie Quisenberry Graveside rites for Mrs. Lin1 Ruth Quisenberry, 32, 1406 Carrollton, were held March 15 i in Richmond. She d’ed March 10 at her home. She was a member of Mt. Moriah Baptist i Church at Richmond. Survivors include her hus- | band, George Quisenberry II, I and a son, George Quisenber-
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PRAYER FOR A MARTYR: Deacon Theodore Covington, 1836 Calvin, and Mrs. Bernice Madden, 1711 College, Apt. 9, kneel before the altar of St. John's Missionary Baptist Church during memorial services last week for civil rights martyr Rev. James Reeb of Boston who lost his Ijfe as the result of violence in Selmo, Ala. (Recorder photo by Jim Burres)
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I SELMA, Ala. — Only . days have passed since Dr, Martin Luther King Jr. launch ed a massive voter registration drive in this city of 30,000, and in other Alabama towns. The results have been few in number of new registrants and I tense in terms of demonstra-
! tions.
! ALTHOUGH Negroes in this “Black Belt” capital have been | demonstrating and challenging the unfair voting method j through the courts here since ! 1963, little progress has been
made.
i When the toll was taken after , a two month effort, two were ! dead. 100 suffered wounds, ! 3,500 were arrested and only 1 token integration was achiev- | ed in Selma, while only a few’ i Negroes were added to the I voter lists in three or four
, counties.
The noticeable division between the Negro and white community has mounted as Negroes continue to boycott white mercenaries, the persistent marches continue, and the police in large numbers remain in constant guard on the streets cutting economy
of the city.
A frightening atmosphere of tension, fear, and anger haunts the Selma region Negroes outnumber white residents by ratios of 3 to 2 and 4 to 1. The population of Dallas County, of which Selma is the governmental seat, is about 55,000. It is 58 percent Negro, yet out of a voting age of
15,000 Negroes only 600 are kicked off two years ago when registered and of 14,400 white Negroes demanded, but to no adults only 9,600 are voters, avail: non-segregation policies There were only 300 Negro i„ all public building, steps tovoters in the county in 1963. ward better jobs for Negroes STRIFE between .the races and formation of a biracial is even more prevalent in committee, neighboring Black Belt coun- IRONICALLY enough, Selties. In Wilcox and Lowndes, rna is only 50 miles to the east where Negroes made up 70 to of Montgomery where Dr. Mar80 percent of the populace, no tin Luther King started his Negro can vote. campaign against segregation At the order of a federal by launching the famous bus court, the Dallas County regis- boycott 10 years ago.
A COMMON INTEREST IN SCOUTING: Dr Robert W. Briggs (right). Explorer Cabinet advisor to the North District and member of the executive board of the Central Indiana Council, is shown greeting William H. Spurgeon III, principal founder of Special Interest Exploring, who spoke to a gathering of the Special Interest Explorer Operations Committee last week. Looking on is Glenn ‘Woodard, explorer advisor of Conservation Post No. 298. (See story)
Negro'aPPncanS: Attacks Counselor of registrations 340 Negroes amonCj 35 Visiting took the tests and in Perry ^ J County 100 took tests, although Nnvn| AcodciTIV no results were made public. In * another county. Hale, 41 of 46 Dr Clemmont Vontrcss of Negroes failed the stringent Crispus Attucks High School
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