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During the 1965 Selma voting rights campaign, Dr. Martin Luther Ruler, Jr., create informal headquarters at the home of Dr. Sullivan Jackson; his better half, Richie Jean; and their young little girl, Jawana. Dr. Jackson was an DARK-COLORED dental practitioner in Selma, whose career offered him some safeguard from economical reprisals, and he was one of the movement's dominant local followers. Richie Jean was a years as a child good friend of King's better half, Coretta Scott Ruler, who had developed in the close by town of Marion, and the Ruler, Abernathy, and Jackson households were all very close. In the dramatic and tension-filled calendar months of 1965 that led up to the Voting Protection under the law March from Selma to Montgomery, Ruler and other nationwide market leaders, including Ralph David Abernathy and John Lewis, held strategy trainings at the Jackson house and achieved with Assistant Attorney Basic John Doar to make a deal strategies for the march. Probably one of the most dramatic moments of that time happened on Mon, March 15, when Leader Lyndon Johnson addressed a joint program of Congress. Huddled along with his aides in Jackson's living room, Ruler was enjoying the conversation on television set when the chief executive issued his require a national dedication to equal rights for everyone. When Johnson finished his conversation with what "We shall overcome," King's lieutenant C. T. Vivian viewed across the Jackson living room and noticed the mark of a tear on Dr. King's cheek. No person in the room had ever before seen Ruler weep. That they had seen him bothered or fretful, sometimes frustrated, and more regularly they had observed him lead with laughter and courage, his emotions always carefully in balance. But upon this nighttime, as they sensed that the voting-rights victory was near, as the chief executive of america appeared to be adopting their cause as his own, Ruler finally let his thoughts flow. This e book is a firsthand consideration of the behind-the-scenes activity of Ruler and his lieutenants - a mixture of stress, tension, dedication, and the personal connections at the movement's heart - advised by Richie Jean Jackson, who carefully created a safe haven for the civil rights leaders and handled the innumerable requirements of living in the attention of events that could permanently change America.
