Visions of the 1960s
there are black-and-white photographs from the era of the civil rights struggle:
page 40, shows police when they turned high-velocity fire hoses on peaceful demonstrators, May 1, 1963, in Birmingham, Alabama ...
("Subterranean Homesick Blues" recorded by Bob Dylan, 1965, has the lines:
Walk on your tiptoes
Don't try No-Doze,
Better stay away from those
who carry 'round the fire-hose...)
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and on page 47, photo: the Voters' March from Selma (Alabama) to Montgomery -- the book says, they planned to have this Walk on March 7, 1965 -- 600 peaceful marchers started out, and were attacked by state and local police with clubs and tear gas.
March 9th, the peaceful protesters tried it again, but this time Martin Luther King halted the effort, to avert similar conflicts.
On March 21st, the walk from Selma to Montgomery commenced without incident.
For basic Voting Rights for black people in Alabama.
51 miles.
Actually -- 100 years and 51 miles.
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