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"THIS IS SELMA, MORE NEGROES IN JAIL WITH ME THAN THERE ARE ON THE VOTING ROLLS.1"

By E.R. Shipp

By Feb. 1, 1965, when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote those words, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) were well into a concerted campaign: They would force the nation to take heed of the great injustices being perpetuated in Alabama with the firm support of a rabidly segregationist governor, George Wallace. More than 3,000 had been arrested by early February

Selma, 1965

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