At Canaan's Edge (184 page)

Rosa Parks speaks to the crowd before King's address on the triumphs and pitfalls of the modern civil rights movement.

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Viola Liuzzo of Detroit completes the march, but is bushwhacked that night while driving through Lowndes County.

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FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, President Johnson, and Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach announce four arrests one day after the Liuzzo murder
(left to right)
, with Hoover concealing that an informant among the suspects had received FBI clearance to join the assault.

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Landmarks of 1965 crest with approval cere-monies for Medicare on July 30
(LBJ with Harry Truman)
.

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“No section of the country can boast of clean hands in the area of brotherhood,” King tells the Massachusetts legislature on April 22, 1965 , exploring sites for a northern campaign.

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The Voting Rights Act on August 6
(LBJ with Abernathy and King)
.

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The Immigration Reform Act on October 3
(at the Statue of Liberty)
. By repealing race-based quotas on foreign applicants, President Johnson declares, American law “will never again shadow the gate to the American nation with the twin barriers of prejudice and privilege.”

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Episcopal seminarian Jonathan Daniels
(with Bunny West in Selma)
, who stayed among civil rights volunteers after the Montgomery march, is arrested at the first Lowndes County demonstration and then murdered by shotgun ambush upon his release from the county jail on August 20, 1965.

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An emergency “tent city” shelters Lowndes County sharecroppers who have been evicted from plantations after trying to register for the vote.

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On primary day, May 3, 1966, voting for the first time in their lives, black citizens of Lowndes County choose their own candidates for local office. Seated at one of the outdoor election tables, school teacher Sarah Logan (
in white glasses
) collects ballots bearing a novel black panther as the required election symbol, observed by Jesse “Note” Favors (
far right
), a runner-up for the sheriff's nomination.

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Stokely Carmichael, SNCC project director in Lowndes County, hugs a young friend to celebrate the creation of an independent political party under Alabama law.

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A pioneer in educa-tion for civil rights, Septima Clark teaches literacy and citizenship to an aspir-ing voter in Wilcox County, Alabama.

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