Dr. Alvida King

When she was on the Glenn Beck Show, Dr Alvida King, who had marched with Martin Luther King at Selma, revealed something most people did not know, including me. She said that before the march every single person that marched had to sign a contract that they would be non-violent during the march. If anyone did not sign the contract they could not come along. She was in her teens then and she had to sign. She said during the march everyone was afraid because they did not know what would happen. The Show put up a picture of the marchers and they all look afraid. This was not an arrogant march, it was a march for principle. When I worked in Mississippi I met Roy who told me that he was there in Selma during the marching. Roy is white and resented the marchers. He told me how he was driving a car with some of his buddies and he intentionally tried to run some of the marchers over. He laughed as he described how the marchers scattered so they would not be hit. I could not determine whether he told me this out of a guilty conscience or to tie himself to a famous happening. In the movie "Gandhi" we see the same thing as Indians are demonstrating against the British and Gandhi has told them to be non-violent. One-by-one Indian demonstrators step up to be beaten down with clobs and then taken away bloody and broken. Watching that scene makes you cringe. Alvida King is going to be with Glenn Beck on August 26 when Tea Party people will meet on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for a demonstration. The Black Panthers have said they will be there also. It should be interesting.