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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1965
Page
5
James Marlow reports on President Johnson and federal pressure targeting Judge Frank M. Johnson over the Selma civil rights marches. The piece notes mounting national and local outrage, Wallace's threats, and Johnson's delayed response culminating in a pledge to intervene to protect demonstrators and push voting rights legislation.
Clergymen from across the nation gathered in Selma Alabama for a memorial service for Rev Jamies Reed killed after a Tuesday attack in Boston Mass observers report demonstrations with police blockades and officials weighing where to hold the service MLK Jr spoke of a stadium offer as a potential breakthrough while President Johnson prepared a voting rights speech Alabama governor Wallace defended slow marches and ordered arrests of demonstrators if they entered the city all as federal judges consider permission for a Selma to Montgomery march and integrated worshipers report being turned away from white churches in Selma
Alabama state lawyers argued that a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery is unsafe for all involved. Gov. Wallace pledged protection for marchers as a court contends the 30 mile route through the Black Belt, amid prior clashes with state troopers and a fatal shooting in Marion.
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