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What the Los Angeles Times said about Selma 50 years ago
2015-03-08 15:25:15| IT Services - Topix.net
The thick-lettered headline on the front page of the Los Angeles Times 50 years ago today was terse and unambiguous: "Negro Marchers Clubbed" and then, in larger type, "Melee in Selma," over a five-column photo of a white trooper bludgeoning a downed black marcher at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. It's a waste of time to call on Washington.
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