A Commemoration.A Commemoration March 7, 2000 Arm in arm they cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to celebrate thirty-five years of struggle and change. For that earlier march state troopers used tear gas, nightsticks to bloody heads, anything to prevent the fifty-mile walk. For this observance, the President joins hands with leaders and common folk-- Not seeking votes this time, just aligning himself with soldiers who battled in mud trenches against segregation. Pictures of this man flash through our minds. Whoever saw such a powerful figure protesting for justice? Photographers came, the sheriff, his dogs, water hoses-- relics that still shiver in our consciousness. James R. Lee lives in Washington, DC. His work has appeared in The Arkansas Arkansas, river, United States Arkansas (ärkăn`zəs, är`kənsô'), river, c.1,450 mi (2,330 km) long, rising in the Rocky Mts., central Colo. Review, Obsidian obsidian (ŏbsĭd`ēən), a volcanic glass, homogeneous in texture and having a low water content, with a vitreous luster and a conchoidal fracture. II, The Journal of African Travel Writing, and elsewhere. He is a former fellow in the Jenny McKean Moore Moore, city (1990 pop. 40,761), Cleveland co., central Okla., a suburb of Oklahoma City; inc. 1887. Its manufactures include lightning- and surge-protection equipment, packaging for foods, and auto parts. Poetry Writing Workshop at George Washington University George Washington University, at Washington, D.C.; coeducational; chartered 1821 as Columbian College (one of the first nonsectarian colleges), opened 1822, became a university in 1873, renamed 1904. . |
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