[BatGuano]

I lived in Selma, AL for 13 months, Sept. 1962 to Oct. 1963.
The town was ready to bust open then, the E. Pettus bridge demos etc. At the time, blacks outnumbered whites about 70% to 30%. Separate but equal schools, 9 Baptist churches, Roman Catholic church was a small house that had a sign “St. ___’s RC church” on the porch. It was strange to a young man from the Northeast. The riots began after I had left, being stoked by “visitors from the North.”
I am not planning to see the film. I did not take sides in the issues but was turned off by Dallas County Sheriff Clark, the poster boy for calling Our policemen “Pigs.” A dark side of our history, for sure!

[Pelham]

“The riots began after I had left, being stoked by “visitors from the North.””

I see a lot of similarities between the events in Ferguson and those back in Selma. It’s not the locals in Ferguson who have been stoking the fires. And someone from outside is paying the organizers to be there. Soros in the case of Ferguson.

I had cousins living in Selma back then. I’ve never seen a good reason why Selma was targeted by the civil rights organizers. It hardly seemed like a city that would attract a lot of attention.

Were you stationed at Craig AFB?