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How Selmas Teachers

Changed History

THE

TEACHERS

MARCH!

Reverend F . D . Reese taught science at

R . B . Hudson High School , but his favorite subject

was freedom . He believed that everyone was a rst -

class citizen , just like the Constitution stated . To be

treated as less than equal , that just wasnt right .

With re in his eyes, Reverend Reese led marchers

to the courthouse to register to vote .

Troublemakers . Thats what the police called the

marchers. Reverend Reese knew that was a lie .

The marchers just wanted to vote like everybody

else . But in Selma , Alabama , segregation kept black

people and white people apart , and billy clubs kept

black people from voting .

Sheriff Clarks cheeks boiled red whenever he spotted

Reverend Reese and the marchers. His deputies blocked the

marble steps of the courthouse . The sheriff swung his club at the

reverend like he was a baseball , and that kept most people away .

Even if they made it into the courthouse , the reverend knew

what would happen . You must take a voting test ! A test impossible

to pass . How many drops of water are in the Alabama River ? How

could anyone answer a question like that ?

Reverend Reese pulled his trench coat over his bruises and kept

on marching and talking about freedom . He had to nd a way to

make their voices heard . He needed a triumphant idea .

Walking through the school one day , the reverend found

his idea in every classroom . What if the teachers marched ?

Not just one teacher like him , but hundreds of teachers .

Leaders . Thats what people called the teachers . The

teachers were the somebody somebodies of the community .

College educated . Shiny leather shoes . Suits and Sunday

brooches seven days a week. No group like that had

marched for freedom before .

If the teachers marched, people would notice , and

change would come .

But in that summer of 1964 , a judge declared

marching and talking about voting rights against the

law in Selma .

Dont get involved in that mess , some people

warned . Its too dangerous. And that stopped

meetings and marches to the courthouse .

How would Reverend Reese convince the

teachers to march now ? He searched for a glorious

opportunity .

Just before Christmas , he huddled by the TV , watching

the great civil rights leader Dr . Martin Luther King Jr . talk

about freedom. The reverends face lit up like a Christmas

tree . Who better than Dr . King to turn things around and

help convince the teachers to march ? That night , Reverend

Reese wrote a letter to Dr . King , inviting him to Selma . He

signed it , Yours for Better Citizens .

Some people thought , Theres no way Dr . King will come

to Selma . But Dr . King said yes!

Some preachers feared theyd be arrested if Dr . King

spoke in their churches about voting rights . But not

the pastor of Brown Chapel . He gave Reverend Reese

permission to have Dr . King speak at his church .

When the day arrived , clouds hung so heavy they

covered the steeples of Brown Chapel .

Reverend Reese worried that nobody would show up .

The night before , a soldier home on leave for Christmas

had thrown a smoke bomb near the church, hoping to

scare Dr . King away .

The bomb didnt scare anyone away . Seven hundred

people squeezed into Brown Chapel , waiting for Dr . King .

Fifteen -year - old Joyce Parrish sat in her usual row with

her mother , Too Sweet.

When Dr . King swung through the doors of Brown

Chapel , Joyce and Too Sweet leapt to their feet and clapped.

Dr . King said people shouldnt be afraid of being arrested.

They should go to jail by the thousands to defend the

right to vote . And he wasnt just talking about committed

marchers like Reverend Reese . He meant everybody

in Brown Chapel .

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