Deportees arrive from US, escorted to police headquarters under tight security
Tuesday, 03 February 2015 – by Denis Scott Chabrol – Caribbean News Desk
Photo: The plane that brought the Guyanese deportees to the land of their birth. The police mobile patrol and the bus that brought them to the city are also seen.
Guyanese deportees arrive at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport and escorted to a Guyana Police Force bus that transported them to the Guyana Police Force’s headquarters of the Criminal Investigations Department, Eve Leary.
The MD-82 jet touched down at the Cheddi Jagan Internationa Airport at exactly 2:39 PM, as a small number of relatives and friends mingled in the viewing gallery. Continue reading
The legendary 1965 confrontation on Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma
Today’s selection from the book– from Landslide by Jonathan Darman. The legendary 1965 confrontation on Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge:
“In an Alabama city called Selma, … in early January 1965 two civil rights groups — the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) — had formed an uneasy alliance to launch a voting rights campaign. As with Mississippi in the summer of 1964, they had chosen their target strategically. Segregation in Selma was vivid and monstrous. It was typified by James Gardner Clark, sheriff of Dallas County, the face of white law enforcement. Clark was a made-for-TV racist, with a bulging waistline and a fondness for the night stick, which he often waved at television cameras. He did not have the ability to control his impulses, nor did his city.
On January 8, Martin Luther King, Jr., arrived at Selma’s segregated King Albert Hotel at the beginning of the campaign, hoping to check in. ‘Get him! Get him!’ a woman in the lobby screamed, and a young man obliged, punching King repeatedly and kicking him in the groin. Continue reading →
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