By Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League “At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point that is man's unending search for freedom. So it was at Lexington and Concord. So it was a century ago at Appomattox. So it was last week in Selma, Alabama.” - President Lyndon Johnson The headline on the front page of the New York Times, 60 years ago this week, read, “Alabama police use gas and clubs to rout Negroes. The eighth paragraph: “John Lewis, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, […]
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