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Thomas M. Barrett: “It starts as we were riding the bus from Montgomery to Selma, during the hour-and-a-half bus ride, or whatever the time…”

On the recordMarch 17, 1998
It starts as we were riding the bus from Montgomery to Selma, during the hour-and-a-half bus ride, or whatever the time period was, we were shown one of the PBS series, Eye on the Prize, and in the segment that dealt with Selma, it was a segment where there were probably 15 or 16 young people who had sort of broken loose from a curfew and were walking to the courthouse, and they were walking to the courthouse to make their case for being able to register to vote, and they were stopped by, I think it was the sheriff, the sheriff from the area.
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Thomas M. Barrett
Wisconsin
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Editor's note · Context

Reflecting on a PBS series segment about the Selma voting rights movement.

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