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The Jack Rabin Collection on Civil Rights and Southern Activists

Series I: Alabama Civil Rights Movement

Sub-series 4: Selma-to-Montgomery March. Date span: 1963-1974 (bulk 1965 and 1974)

Appendix I.4A: Listing of printouts from microfilm reel 17, news clippings from the files of the Subversive Unit of the Investigative and Identification Division of the Alabama Department of Public Safety, 1963-1965 (bulk 1965)

Reel 17, box 2, folder 8, 1963-1965 (bulk 1965) 1. Political cartoon: ―Everything Hasn‘t Been Cleaned Up‖ (Selma March) 2. ―Press Hit on Selma Reporting,‖ Nashville Banner, April 6, 1965 3. ―Andrews Says Black Should Be First Committee Witness‖ 4. ―The Vote Bill: Opposing Views,‖ Christian Science Monitor, April 14, 1965 5. ―Klan Quality‖ 6. ―Visitors to Alabama Always Among Friends‖; ―Right Even if Defeated,‖ Mobile Register, , 1965 7. ―Governors Ask Federals for Flexibility on Integration‖ 8. ―A Minister and 13 Girls,‖ Bradenton [?], March 12, 1965 9. George Dixon, ―What a Shame,‖ [Tamaqua, PA], April 11, [1965] 10. ―FBI‘s Hoover Deserves Thanks, Support of True Americans,‖ Atlanta Times, November 21, 1964 11. ―A Mighty Victory‖; ―The Klan, and Mr. White‖; ―Mob vs. Human‖; ―How to Prevent Crime,‖ all Indianapolis Star, [1965] 12. ―Beaten Minister Dies,‖ [Portland] Oregon Journal, March 12, 1965 13. Ralph De Toledano, ―Harry Truman Speaks Out,‖ Human Events, , 1965 14. ―Final Action on Voting Rights Seen This Week,‖ Indianapolis Star, August 2, 1965 15. ―KKK Hits Charges; Vigil Set,‖ Anniston Star, March 28, 1965 16. Political advertisement, Anniston area 17. ―Sickening Spectacle in Alabama,‖ 18. ―What‘s Up in Selma?,‖ Oregon [Journal], February [1965] 19. ―Open Book in Montgomery‖ 20. Bob Ingram, ―Special Session Expected on Feb. 9; Wallace Wants It As Short As Possible,‖ [?], [1965] 21. ―Back Wallace‘s Proposal,‖ [?Tuscaloosa News] 22. ―The Governor Briefs Us,‖ Greenville Advocate, , 1965 23. ―Support Sound School Needs,‖ Tuscaloosa News, , 1965 24. ―We Stand with Governor Wallace‖ 25. ―Negro Vote Drive Pushed in Selma; 156 Are Arrested,‖ Washington Post, , 1965 2

26. Paul Good, ―States Rights Partisan Slugs Dr. King in Hotel,‖ Washington Post, [dateline , (1965)] 27. Paul Good, ―Peace at Stake in Selma Vote Drive,‖ Washington Post, [dateline January 21, (1965)] 28. Photos: Martin Luther King assaulted in Selma; voter registration in Selma, Washington Post, , 1965 29. Kelso Sturgeon, ―Prayer Vigil Not Confined to Praying,‖ [dateline March 11, (1965)] 30. ―Reds and the Negro: How Civil-Rights Groups, FBI Cope with Communist Fringe,‖ National Observer, July 27, 1964 31. ―Truce in St. Augustine as Negotiation Begins‖ 32. ―Race Violence: Hidden Bombs,‖ Christian Science Monitor, April 5, 1965 33. Al Kuettner, ―March ‗Incidents‘ Admitted, But Wholesale Sex Denied,‖ Alabama Journal, [1965] 34. ―Voting Plans Draw Fire,‖ [?Alabama Journal] 35. ―A Week With Civil Rights Forces in Mississippi,‖ National Observer 36. ―Federal Law‖ 37. Letter to editor on race relations in Alabama 38. ―18,000 Hear King at Boston Rally‖; ―Bogalusa Tries Mediators,‖ both [Ontario, Canada] Free Press, April 24, 1965 39. ―McComb,‖ Ch[ristian Science Monitor], November 21, 1964 40. James J. Kilpatrick, ―A Country‘s Patience Running Out,‖ Birmingham News, , 1965 41. ―Judge Hare Raps Kennedy Suits as ‗Reprisal‘‖ 42. James Chisum, ―Integration Main Topic of State School Chiefs‖; ―LBJ Can‘t Afford Probe, Shelton Says,‖ [?] News, [dateline , (1965)] 43. Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, ―Selma Whites, Negroes Talking, But Problems Not Yet Solved, Birmingham News, [summer 1965] 44. Howard James, ―Alabama Impasse,‖ [circa ] 45. ―No Later Than,‖ Andalusia Star-News, [1965] 46. ―Futile Act of Defiance,‖ Tuscaloosa News, March 1, 1965 47. ―You Don‘t Have to Be Indian to . . .‖ 48. ―Legislators Irked by Liuzzo Files‖ 49. ―Rally Honors Accused Klan Trio at Dunn,‖ Huntsville [?], [1965] 50. G. K. Hodenfield, ―National PTA Chief Backs Civil Rights‖; Senate Ballot on Vote Bill Still Elusive,‖ both [?], [circa ] 51. ―Bill on Voting Flouts Due Process of Law,‖ Mobile Press Register, , 1965 52. Bill Sellers, ―Delaying Tactics in Alabama Senate,‖ May 16, 1965 53. ―Why Does Dr. King Oppose Rescue Mission in Congo?,‖ Atlanta Times, December 12, 1964 54. ―King,‖ [circa January 1965] 55. ―Rights Bill Impact,‖ Wall Street Journal, , 1965 56. ―Riots in Harlem‖ 57. Photo: ―Negro Takes Tennessee Assembly Seat‖; ―Bridge to Whites Sought,‖ both Christian Science Monitor, [early January 1965] 58. David Lawrence, ―Voter Qualifications,‖ Mobile Register, 1965 3

59. Political cartoon: voting rights and Vietnam, Publishers’ Auxiliary, March 27, 1965 60. Jimmy Breslin, ―The Sermons Are All on Selma, But Summer‘s Due in Harlem,‖ New York Herald Tribune, [spring 1965] 61. ―Voice Not from Dixie But from New England‖; ―Amen‖; Drew Pearson, ―Almost like Tide Tacking Alabama‖; David Lawrence, ―‗Without Precedent,‖ all Mobile Register, March 25, 1965 62. ―Publicity Hoax,‖ Dothan Eagle, January 29, 1965 63. ―Readers Continue to Discuss Selma‖ 64. George Dixon, ―Con Man and the Mayor,‖ San Francisco Examiner, [] [retitled, but otherwise identical text to item #9 above] 65. Bob Ingram, ―Voter Bill is Approved by Senate,‖ Montgomery Advertiser, April 23, 1965 66. ―Boston Mayor Studies Grievances after March,‖ Alabama Journal, April 24, [1965] 67. ―Church Bombing Coverage Cited: Star Reporting Draws Praise,‖ 68. Paul Good, ―Police Seize Dr. King in Selma Rally,‖ Washington Post, February 2, 1965 69. ―The Case for Miss., Ala., and the South‖ 70. ―‗Rights‘ Suits Due‖ 71. ―Better Understanding, We Hope . . .‖ 72. ―Negro Leadership: Can it Prevent More Bloodshed?,‖ Birmingham News, June 15, 1965 73. ―Martin Luther King . . . . at communist Training School,‖ Augusta Courier, July 8, 1963 74. ―Forman Refuses to Repudiate Reds,‖ Human Events, April 24, 1965 75. ―Double Standard,‖ Manchester Union Leader, March 19, 1965 76. ―What Christ Really Preached,‖ Human Events, , 1965 77. ―Extracts from ‗March on Montgomery: The Untold Story,‖ Congressional Record, April 27, 1965 78. ―March on Montgomery: The Untold Story,‖ Congressional Record, March 30, 1965 79. Strom Thurmond, ―What the President Didn‘t Say,‖ Human Events, [1965] 80. ―An Eyewitness Account,‖ Congressional Record, April 1, 1965 81. ―Background Information on Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.‖ 82. ―Johnson, King Decree that Negro Race Must Be Assimilated by White People,‖ Augusta Courier, December ?28, 1965 83. Photo, ―Freedom Marchers Bed Down‖ [] 84. ―The Untold Part of the Selma Story,‖ Congressional Record, March 30, 1965

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Reel 17, box 2, folder 9, 1964-1965 (bulk 1965) 85. Carl P. Clement: ―Alabama Civil Rights Problem Not a Racial Issue,‖ Dunsmuir News, June 17, 1965 86. ―Bulletin from Americans for America‖ 87. ―A Plea for Reasonableness: the School Bus Issue‖ 88. ―Suspects Confuse Slaying of Wife,‖ Anniston Star, March 28, 1965 89. ―Pike Leaders Urge Calm in CR Testing,‖ November 18, 1964 90. ―Joined Maddox‘ Atlanta March‖ [letter to editor], [May 1965] 91. David Lawrence, ―LBJ Asks Congress to Take Away Civil Rights of American Worker‖; Holmes Alexander, ―Civil Rights Obsession Widening U.S. Division,‖ both Dothan Eagle 92. Typewritten letter from Victor B. Atkins, Jr., of the County Abstract Co., Inc., Selma, Alabama, to Roswell Falkenberry of the Selma Times-Journal, , 1965, with enclosures from February 1923 pertaining to a Massachusetts-based states‘ rights group, Sentinels of the Republic 93. William H. Stringer, ―‗Rights‘ Knit Together,‖ Christian Science Monitor, December 16, 1964 94. Handwritten letter of March 17, 1965, from [?] in to the editor of the ―Selma ,‖ Selma, Alabama, with articles enclosed: Mike Royko, ―Selma Police Chief Wins Friends with Nonviolent Tactics‖; ―Alabama: Long Road Symbol of Movement‖; photo: ―Protest Police Brutality,‖ all Minneapolis Star, March 17, 1965 95. ―Confrontation in ,‖ Chicago Daily News, [circa March 1965] 96. ―Where are Leaders?‖ [letter to editor], Birmingham News, February 19, [?1965] 97. ―School Heads Delay Action on Signing‖ 98. ―Don‘t Let Rumors Get You,‖ [circa March 1965] 99. Holmes Alexander, ―The Republicans and the Southern Vote,‖ Northern Virginia Daily, March 17, 1965 100. Holmes Alexander, ―A New Color Blindness‖ 101. John Allan Long, ―Displaced Negroes: Racial Currents in Mississippi‖; Josephine Ripley, ―The Dialect Deterrent‖; ―Legal Challenge‖; ―Dr. King to Donate Nobel Money,‖ all December 19, 1964 102. William Loeb, ―Just a Day at Home,‖ [circa late March 1965] 103. ―LBJ and the Negroes‘ Future‖ [circa May 1965] 104. ―The State of Alabama,‖ Birmingham News, June 8, 1965 105. ―The Intellectuals and President Johnson‖ 106. William Loeb, ―While Back Home‖ 107. Robert Cahn, ―Johnson Calls Conferences, Sets Out New Racial Goals,‖ Christian Science Monitor, June 7, 1965 108. ―Dr. King‘s Boycott,‖ Chicago Tribune, March 31, 1965 109. Hughes A. Robinson, ―Criticizes King: Rights Agitations Coast Negroes Gains: Educator,‖ Albany [Georgia] Herald, January 6, 1965 110. ―They‘re for Reform in Alabama,‖ Chicago Tribune, April 16, 1965 111. [fragment on Louisiana literacy tests for voter qualification] 112. Kenneth L. Dixon, ―Three Words Label Johnson as Factional President‖ [March 1965] 5

113. Al Kuettner, ―Hometown Pays Tribute to King,‖ Birmingham Post-Herald, January 28, 1965 114. David Lawrence, ―The President Demands Mobocracy Rule‖ [March 1965] 115. David Lawrence, ―Alabama Action Hews Carefully to Constitution‖ [1965] 116. John Herbers, ―Woman Punches Alabama Sheriff,‖ New York Times, [, 1965] 117. [fragment of editorial on violence in the Northeast during demonstrations in Selma] 118. John Herbers, ―Negro Teachers Protest in Selma‖; ―Schools in South Comply on Rights,‖ both New York Times, , 1965 119. ―LBJ, King Guilty‖ [letter to editor], Montgomery Advertiser, April 21, 1965 120. David F. Wagner, ―Oshkosh Activity of Stayed in Public Eye Only 2 Years,‖ Appleton [Wisconsin] Post-Crescent, April 18, 1965 121. ―Issues of Selma Daily Paper Show ‗Fearless Journalism‘,‖ [1965] 122. ―Evers, Group Bolsters Rights Drive in Jackson,‖ Washington Post, June 27, 1965 123. ―Sen. Fulbright Stubborn, Smart,‖ Charleston [West Virginia] Gazette, March 16, [1965] 124. ―King Exhorts Negroes: Test All Racial Bars,‖ [dateline January 15, (1965)] 125. ―Not Force with Force, but One More Try at Dissolving Injustice with Justice,‖ Charleston [West Virginia] Daily Mail, March 17, 1965 126. photos: ―Civil Rights Demonstrators March on Statehouse,‖ Charleston [West Virginia] Gazette, March 17, 1965 127. ―Intercepted Message,‖ [publication of note from George (?Wallace) to Wilson Baker, March 18, 1965] 128. ―What is Eight Weeks of Demonstrations Compared with 100 Years of Injustice?,‖ Charleston [West Virginia] Daily Mail, March 16, 1965 129. Ralph McGill, ―Take a Good Look!,‖ Charleston [West Virginia] Gazette 130. Ralph McGill, ―Agony of the Pulpit,‖ Charleston [West Virginia] Gazette, March 17, (1965) 131. ―Bureaucratic Excess‖ ―Near-Miss Verdict,‖ Montgomery Advertiser, , 1965 132. ―Dr. King to Seek New Voting Law‖; ―15 Young Rights Pickets Battle U.S. Marshals at Foley Square,‖ both New York Times, February 6, 1965 133. ―King‘s Arrest Reported Part of Master Plan,‖ [circa January 1965] 134. John Lynch, ―Congressional Delegation Plans to Visit Selma,‖ Gadsden Times, February 4, 1965 135. ―Publicity Hoax,‖ Troy Messenger, February 2, 1965 136. ―A Landmark Vote Gives Negroes Lever Against Discrimination by Unions‖ 137. ―Martin Challenges Katzenbach Ability‖ 138. ―The Dust Begins to Settle,‖ Decatur Daily, [1965] 139. Don McKee, ―Selma Officials to Obey Order‖ [circa January 1965] 140. ―Harry Truman Call Selma March ‗Silly‘,‖ [March 1965] 141. ―Church and Hate,‖ Sylacauga [Alabama] News, , 1964 142. ―The Busy National Council of Churches,‖ Human Events, , 1965 143. ―National Council of Churches Finances Racial Turmoil‖ 6

144. ―How‘s the Racial Image?‖ 145. [editorial against Martin Luther King‘s intended boycott of Alabama, circa May 1965] 146. headline: ―That‘s Your Cue to Leave, Dr. King,‖ Tampa Tribune 147. Marquis W. Childs, ―Collins Shows Patience, Unshakable Calm in Difficult Role of Selma Peacemaker,‖ St. Louis Post-Herald, [dateline March 13, (1965)] 148. ―Perilous Naivete of Dr. King,‖ [reprinted from St. Louis Globe-Democrat, December 3, 1964] 149. ―Voter Examination Unduly Difficult,‖ Decatur [Daily] reel 17, box 2, folder 10, 1964-1965 (bulk 1965) 150. ―[letters] To the Editor,‖ Morris County’s [New Jersey], April 6, 1965 151. ―Letters to the Editor,‖ Wayne Independent [Honesdale, Pennsylvania], April 1, 1965 152. ―The Selma Story‖; ―James Bevil [sic: Bevel] on Rioting‖; 7 photos; ―Communists Love Lewis, Lewis Loves Communists‖; ―King in 1957, King in 1964‖; ―Andrew Young,‖ all Birmingham Independent, February 3, 1965 153. George Carmack, ―Selma Strife Spurs Drive in Congress,‖ New York World- Telegram and The Sun, February 6, 1965 154. ―Lawyers Ask Tight Dallas Voter Rules,‖ Alabama Journal 155. ―U.S. Marshals Arrest 16 in ,‖ Alabama Journal, June 24, 1965 156. ―[?] Mistake to Stop First Rights March‖ 157. ―Foolish or Vicious? Or Both?,‖ Greensboro Watchman, 158. ―The Others Have Problems, Too,‖ Greensboro Watchman, 159. Robert S. Allen and Paul Scott, ―Big Drive to Unseat Mississippi Congress Men Seen,‖ Birmingham News, June 16, 1965 160. ―Players of a Summer Game,‖ Alabama Journal, June 16, 1965 161. JoAnn Maxwell, ―Unplanned Curve Thrown Governor,‖ Tri-Cities [Daily] [Sheffield, Tuscumbia, and Muscle Shoals City, Alabama], [circa mid-] 162. JoAnn Maxwell, ―Racially-Troubled Selma First Stop for Visiting Newsmen Touring State,‖ Tri-Cities Daily, [circa June 8, 1965] 163. ―Editors Tour North Alabama,‖ Decatur Daily, June 8, [1965] 164. ―Welcome to Alabama, Editors,‖ Opelika Daily News, June 8, 1965 165. ―Editors Are Greeted by Pickets in Selma,‖ Opelika Daily News, [circa June 9, 1965] 166. Roy Bain, ―Newsmen ‗Warming Up‘,‖ Tuscaloosa News, [circa June 9, 1965] 167. Hugh Merrill, ―NAACPer Plans Press Talk Here‖; ―Bear Refuses Water Walk for Newsmen,‖ both Huntsville Times, [circa June 10, 1965] 168. Don McKee, ―Righters Greet Newsmen Making Tour of Selma,‖ Mobile Register, [circa June 8, 1965] 169. ―There is Much Work to be Done at Home,‖ Decatur Daily, [circa June 8, 1965] 170. ―Demonstrators Protest Tour by Newsmen,‖ Troy Messenger, [circa June 9, 1965] 171. JoAnn Maxwell, ―Skepticism and General Curiosity Prevail Among Visiting Newsmen,‖ Tri-Cities Daily, [circa June 9, 1965] 7

172. ―CR Demonstrators Meet Touring Newsmen in Selma,‖ Troy Messenger, [circa June 8, 1965] 173. ―Newsmen Look Over B‘ham After Pickets, Calls at Selma,‖ Anniston Star, [circa June 9, 1965] 174. ―The Use of Smear Words,‖ Anniston Star 175. ―Rights Leaders Plan to Impeach Wallace,‖ Daily News, March [?29, ?1965] 176. Handwritten note to a newspaper 177. ―Klan Leaders Want Talk with Johnson,‖ Daily News, March 29, 1965 178. ―King, Peace and Violence‖ 179. David Lawrence, ―What Happened to ‗Law and Order‘ in Rights?,‖ [1965] 180. Jerry Hames, ―Clubs, Tear Gas, Hatred Facts of Selma Girl‘s Life,‖ London [Ontario, Canada] Free Press, April 24, 1965 181. ―Civil Rights Rally Swells King Fund,‖ London [Ontario, Canada] Free Press, [1965] 182. Rev. David C. Tyrell, ―St. Margaret Mary Curate Recalls Memorable Visit,‖ Westwood [Massachusetts] Press, [circa late March 1965] 183. Henry J. Taylor, ―Voting Measure Greatly Increases Federal Powers,‖ [circa spring 1965] 184. News notes on testimony following murder of Rev. , and on Harry Truman denouncing both Martin Luther King and the Ku Klux Klan,‖ [circa spring 1965] 185. ―Sen. Sparkman Opens Anti-Boycott Drive,‖ [dateline April 21, 1965] 186. News note on Wilson Baker, Cincinnati Post and Times-Star 187. ―King Levels Blast at Ala. Sheriff,‖ Cincinnati Post and Times-Star, February 11, 1965 188. George Carmack, ―The Alabama Vote Tests: Citizen Who Passes is an ‗Expert‘,‖ [] 189. David Lawrence, ―Volume Voting Stressed in Bill, Honesty is Ignored,‖ 1965 190. ―A Walk—Or a March?,‖ Birmingham News, March 14, 1965 191. Ralph Griffith, ―New York, Georgia Literacy Tests for Voting Strongest,‖ Knoxville Journal, March 26, 1965 192. ―Two Wrongs Don‘t Make a Right‖; ―Text of Johnson‘s ‗Voting Rights Bill of 1965‘,‖ both Knoxville Journal, March 26, 1965 193. article typescript: John Charwick, ―First Lead Voting Rights‖ 194. Don McKee, ―2,300 Negroes are Jailed as Voter Drive Increases‖; James Keyser, ―Here‘s What Faces Folks Registering in Alabama‖; ―Rex Thomas, ―Selma Whites Maintain Calm,‖ all Huntsville Times, February 4, 1965 195. ―18 Letters from Selma, Alabama, Present Insight on Race Agitation,‖ Star- Journal [Hope, Indiana], March 25, 1965 196. ―No Boycott of Alabama,‖ St. Louis Globe-Democrat, March 31, 1965 197. William Loeb, ―Is This Trip Necessary?‖ 198. ―Firms Refuse Boycott – Todd,‖ [mid-1965] 199. [repetition of #186, above] 200. ―ADA‘s Recipe for Disaster,‖ Human Events, January 16, 1965 201. ―Rights Group Battles Police in Manhattan,‖ [early 1965] 202. ―Paper Firm Answers Wilkins Selma Plea,‖ [dateline February 7, (?1965)] 8

203. Al Kuettner, ―Negroes Planning to ‗Fill the Jails‘‖; ―Carpet Rolled out for Visiting Newsmen,‖ both [early 1965] 204. ―Registrars Bow to Negro Terms in Selma,‖ [circa February 1965] 205. ―The Long View in Selma‖ [circa February 1965] 206. Howard James, ―City of Contrasts: ‗Rights‘ Act Stirs Selma Dust,‖ [Christian Science Monitor,] February 2, 1965 207. ―They Shall Not Overcome‖ 208. ―Bullets, Bottles, and Harlem: the Chronology of a Race Riot,‖ [?1964] 209. ―‘25 to 35 a Day . . .‘,‖, February 4, 1965 210. Howard James, ―Selma: ‗Rights‘ Target,‖ [Christian Science Monitor, late January 1965] 211. ―Rex Thomas, ―Whites Retain Composure Despite Selma Outbreaks,‖ [early 1965] 212. Gay Talese, ―West 84th Street Is Still Festering,‖ [New York Times, February 5,] 1965 213. ―The Day Alabama‘s Mr. Wallace Fooled Friend and Foe Alike,‖ [] 214. Howard James, ―Voter Drive: Selma Negroes Have ‗Plan‘,‖ Christian Science Monitor, [early 1965] 215. John Herbers, ―Negro Goals in Selma‖; Roy Reed, ―Dr. King to Seek New Voting Law‖; ―Speed Negro Vote, Alabama Ordered,‖ all New York Times, [dateline February 5, (1965)] 216. ―Wearying Along in Selma‖; James Keyser, ―Here‘s What Alabama‘s Voting Test Is Like,‖ Tuscaloosa News, February 4, 1965 217. ―Congress Should Look at SNCC,‖ Enquirer [Cincinnati], April 5, 1965 218. ―North Next for SCLA—King Aide‖ [April 1965]