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"All They Want Is To Gain Attention": Press Coverage And The Selma-To-Montgomery March, S. Ray Granade, Deranda R. Granade

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March in Alabama can be a beautiful month with warm days, cool nights, flowers bursting from the ground with vibrant yellows, reds, and violets, and greens everywhere. Jonquils push through the ground like horns resounding with the song of spring and forsythia adorns itself ingold.¹ March can also fulfill the proverb “comes in like a lion, goes out like a lamb.” Alabama’s March of 1965 offered cold, wet, windy weather up until the end. But a different wind blew through Selma that month—the wind of discontent and change.

For the first three months of 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King, …