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  • with clubs, whips and tear gas. Many were injured, and one brave minister , the Reverend James J. Reeb, was beaten to death. His only crime was to prot es t man ' s inhumanity to man. Ironically, he became its victim. These tragic events highlight once again
  • had merel y ~ barred the path of those who sought to march. The horses, the whips, the clubs, and the tear gas was what shocked and aroused the American public. It was the television films of these tactics which circulated around the world to our
  • J WA1415 PD I 'I 7 12 WASHINGTON DC 9 519P EST THE PRESIDENT THE ·!HITE HOUSE WE I THE AFL - CIO ARE APPALLED BY THE POLICE BRUTALITY I SELMA , ALABAMA . THE MEN A1D vO EN WHO YiERE CLUBBED AND BEATEN BY THE STATE POLICE AND OTHER LA 1
  • . ----SCLC James Farmer ---------·-CORE James Forman -----------SNCC Roy Wilkins -----------NAACP Whitney M. Young, Jr.----National Urban League Mrs. Dorothy Height -~--­ National Federation 0£ Negro Women's Clubs Bayard Rustin A. Philip Randolph I ;,i ·~r