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The basis (with later Caesar writer Selma Diamond) of Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show , Kallen went on to write six novels.
Employing historical footage, the film also shows state troopers attacking voter-registration marchers in Selma on March 7, 1965, with tear gas and clubs.
John Lewis, a giant of the civil rights movement, who was seriously injured by Wallace's thuggy troops at Selma.
I think, for example, of 15-year-old June Johnson, who joined Bob Moses and his "troublemakers" (as her mother called them) in an excursion to Selma, only to wind up beaten by authorities in a Winona, Miss.
There were previously unthinkable triumphs: protests at Birmingham and Selma, Ala., that helped topple Jim Crow; a quarter-million Americans gathering in Washington to demand racial equality; black activists and Northern white volunteers registering hordes of black voters; a civil-rights act outlawing racial discrimination, passed despite a three-month Senate filibuster.