In Selma, Alabama, 1965, My Uncle Mac Secrest Helped Reduce Civil Rights Conflict…Often With Humor

He got the tense crowd to laugh

Mar 07, 2024

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Reading Boston College historian Heather Cox Richardson’s account of Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965, and the struggle for African-American voting rights:

Letters from an American

March 6, 2024

Black Americans outnumbered white Americans among the 29,500 people who lived in Selma, Alabama, in the 1960s, but the city’s voting rolls were 99% white. So, in 1963, Black organizers in the Dallas County Voters League launched a drive to get Black voters in Selma registered. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a prominent civil rights organ…

a year ago · 1823 likes · 321 comments · Heather Cox Richardson

inspires me to recall the work of my maternal uncle, Andrew (Mac) Secrest (1923-2010) in avoiding violent conflict in Selma.

As a government negotiator specializing in civil rights conflicts in the mid-19…

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