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Bloody Sunday

Bloody Sunday

King Bloody Undaunted By ama Melee owner, co-owners 2nd by County, "In the light of Sunday's trag-P35 i horsAc event, I have no SELMA, Ala. (AP) An at-iJames G. Clark's Dallas Aiknm rnn fnnnnrn 4U -i nas xt- 1 1. 1 x' i il rights erupted into bloody ra-jfrom where the march started. of Alabama to continue in their cial violence in a clash withlThe possemen shouted "Get the determined attempt to walk to state police Sunday. Niggers off the streets!" as they Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. charged. says he will lead another at tempted march Tuesday. King decided to remain in Atlanta and did not, as planned, lead Sunday's march attempt by about 450 Negroes which Montgomery to protest the injustices and indignities that surround their lives." King said he did not make his ine Justice Department an nounced in Washington that FBI! agents in Selma have been or-iplanned trip to Selma to lead dered to make a complete in- the Sunday march because "it vestigation to determinewas suggested that I remain in "whether unnecessary force! Atlanta for my Sunday church was broken up by blue-helmeted was used by law officers and responsibilities and to mobilize troopers wielding night others" in halting the march. (national support for a larger shotguns, tear-gas grenades and Any. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbacni thrust forward. wearing gas masks. About 40 Negroes were injured in the vio lent confrontation about a mile after the march began. "If it has to be a path of blood, it is going to be established that Negroes have the said he was in touch with the situation. Selma Mayor Joe Smitherman criticized King for not coming to Gov. George Wallace refused lead the march he had organ- to comment. ized. "It should be very evident King said a motion would bejto the Negro people by now that filed federal court at Mont-; King and the other leaders who gomery today seeking an in- ask them to break laws are al right to walk on the highways of junction to prevent Wallace and wavs absent as he was today, Alabama," said the Rev. James state troopers from said. Bevel, a lieutenant in Kings Tuesday march to emphasize The march was led by Hosea Southern Christian beaoersnip tne lNegroes' plea tor tne ngnt: Williams of the SCLC and John Conference. King was expected to vote in this stronghold of LewjS) a chairman of the Stu- ui beima this evening. tradition. dent Nonviolent Coordinating rne mgnway was cmuereaj uevei, addressing a mass rse- Committee. Lewis suffered a with packs, bed rolls and other gro rally that followed the aborpg sun fractUre but Wil- camping equipment wnen me uve marcn, cnucizea tresiaeni ijams was not injured in the melee ended They had been left, Johnson for not fulfilling his showdown with state troopers. Denmo Dy negroes ueeing me, promises. About stopped tear gas anu uie tiuo-awinSuiS jonusuu ivi.uwa umi under direct orders from state troopers I cannot vote here," he said IWaUace. Maj. John Cloud, The troopers later were joined; King, speaking from his homei by about 60 members of Sheriff in Atanta, said: I See ALABAMA, page 14 ene told she low in so to til she