CIVIL RIGHTS MARCH
Growing Fears Of Violence (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) SARDIS (Mississippi), June 10. Fears grew today among leaders of the civil rights march through the segregationist State of Mississippi, that violence might explode at any time. Sweltering heat was thought likely to fray the tempers of marchers already indignant over the shooting on Monday of the Negro lawyer, James Meredith, who started the march alone on June 5. But Dr. Martin Luther King, who took over from Meredith, said: “I have not lost confidence in nonviolence.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31083, 11 June 1966, Page 17
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85CIVIL RIGHTS MARCH Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31083, 11 June 1966, Page 17
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