Letter from Edwin Strickland, staff director for the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace, to Governor George Wallace in Montgomery, Alabama.
In the letter Strickland discusses the attempted civil rights march from Selma, Alabama, on "Bloody Sunday" (March 7). Based on information he has received, he reports that "the Negroes did not expect to march and did not want to march from Selma but did want to be prevented doing so....
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Summary: | In the letter Strickland discusses the attempted civil rights march from Selma, Alabama, on "Bloody Sunday" (March 7). Based on information he has received, he reports that "the Negroes did not expect to march and did not want to march from Selma but did want to be prevented doing so." He also reports that another demonstration is planned for the next day, and he recommends that the governor allow it with certain stipulations: "I suggest that you might consider taking them by surprise by allowing them to march to-morrow (March 9), a march for which they are totally un-prepared and which they do not want to do...I would respectfully suggest that they publicly be told that the ground rules would be: No marching on the pavement; No litter on the roadside; adequate provisions for sanitary facilities. They could not meet these conditions on short notice since they are not planning any bona fide march in the first place." |
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