a, Alabama. In the first three months of 1965, the SCLC led local residents and visiting volunteers in a series of marches demanding an equal right to vote. As in Birmingham, they met with violence and imprisonment. King himself wrote a letter from the Selma jail, published in the New York Times, in which he said, "there are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls" in Selma. In the worst attack yet, on S
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