SOURCE NOTES
VOTELESS, 1963
“A vote-less people . . .”: Robinson, Bridge Across Jordan, 225.
“Fear is the key ...”: Woffurd, Of Kennedys and Kings, 112.
“If we in the South ...”: Lewis, Walking with the Wind, 180.
“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow ...”: McCabe and Stekler, The American Experience, “George Wallace.”
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ARRIVES, 1965
January 2
“This little light ...”: Freedom Songs, liner notes, 4.
“a symbol of bitter-end resistance . . .”: Kotz, Judgment Days, 254.
lighting a fire ...: National Park Service, “Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail,” Lowery.
January 4-14
“If you can’t vote ...”: Webb and Nelson, Selma, Lord, Selma, 11.
“Don’t worry about your children ...”: Sing for Freedom, cut 20.
“Why do you have to drink ...”: Mauldin, personal interview.
“I always had an answer ...”: National Park Service, “Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail,” Mauldin.
“From a child up ...” “They had a lot of fear ...” and “Please leave that mess . . .”: Simmons, personal interview.
Up until World War II ... : Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name, 65, 379.
“The movement was like ...”: National Park Service, “Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail,” Lowery.
January 18-22
Rachel got home ...: Webb and Nelson, Selma, Lord, Selma, 24.
“Now, you’re going across the line ...” and “Mr. White Man ...”: Hampton and Fayer, Voices of Freedom, 211-12.
“Baby, don’t be afraid ...”: Hampton and Fayer, Voices of Freedom, 219.
“If death was the option ...” “That song was ...” and “Not that any of us ...”: Bonner, personal interview.
“Oh Freedom ...”: Freedom Songs, liner notes, 2.
“They treated you ...” and “After the first time ...”: Simmons, personal interview.
February 1-17
“Even though they cannot vote . . .”: Branch, Pillar of Fire, 575.
“We’re gonna do ...”: WNEW’s Story of Selma, liner notes, 5.
“We want to make them ...” and “All of you underage ...”: Herbers, “Negros Step Up Drive in Alabama.”
“We had to sleep . . .” and “I’ll be right there ...”: Watters, “Why the Negro Children March.”
“A hundred times ...”: King, Martin Luther, Jr., The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr., 54.
“If you miss Governor Wallace ...”: Voices of the Civil Rights Movement, disc 1, cut 3.
“You’ve been wanting to march . . .”: Kotz, Judgment Days, 274.
“God sees you ...” and “You’d be beat . . .”: Watters, “Why the Negro Children March.”
“You have to cut yourself off . . .”: Mauldin, personal interview.
“I’m proud of you ...”: Watters, “Why the Negro Children March.”
“The adults that came ...”: Bland, personal interview.
“If you cannot sing ...”: Seeger and Reiser, Everybody Says Freedom, 82.
“And for God’s sake ...”: Lowery, personal interview.
February 19-March 6, 1965
“Be prepared to walk ...”: Branch, At Canaan’s Edge, 9.
BLOODY SUNDAY: MARCH 7, 1965
“Tear gas will ...”: Carson, Reporting Civil Rights Part Two, 336.
“We were going to get killed ...”: Seeger and Reiser, Everybody Says Freedom, 191.
“There’s a type of coolness ...”: National Park Service, “Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail,” Mauldin.
“Go home or go ...”: Branch, At Canaan’s Edge, 50.
“This is it ...”: Lewis, Walking with the Wind, 328.
“People were laying out ...”: Simmons, personal interview.
“They ran those horses ...”: “Joanne Bland,” Baylor Magazine.
“They would lean over ...”: Simmons, personal interview.
“It was pure hatred ...”: Lowery, personal interview.
“You ever see ...”: Hampton, Eyes on the Prize.
“like we were slaves ...”: Webb and Nelson, Selma, Lord, Selma, 105.
TURN AROUND TUESDAY: MARCH 9
“Mine eyes have seen ...”: Boni, Fireside Book of Favorite American Songs, 145.
“Thank God we’re ...”: Webb and Nelson, Selma, Lord, Selma, 109.
“We must let them know ... ”: Branch, At Canaan’s Edge, 64.
“Mr. Attorney General ...”: Kotz, Judgment Days, 292.
“I do not know . . .”: Kotz, Judgment Days, 295.
“I held Lynda’s hand ...” and “If you don’t go ...”: National Park Service, “Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail,” Bland.
“almost continuous pattern ...”: Kotz, Judgment Days, 316.
DAY ONE: SUNDAY, MARCH 21
“I wanted him to see ...”: National Park Service, “Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail,” Lowery.
“Yes, it was worth the boy ...”: Kotz, Judgment Days, 320.
“How could you ever think ...”: Carson, Reporting Civil Rights Part Two, 354.
“One more time ...” and “Jump!”: Chandler, “Selma: A Folksinger’s Report,” 10.
DAY TWO: MONDAY, MARCH 22
“It looked like ...” “They knew they couldn’t send ...” and “What kind of person ...”: Lowery, personal interview.
“You really believe ...” “I do ...” and “It’s easy to talk ...”: Adler, “Letter from Selma.”
“I’m not afraid ...”: “National Report,” 47.
DAY THREE: TUESDAY, MARCH 23
“You goddamn kids ...” and “Cool it when ...”: Wofford, Of Kennedys and Kings, 194.
DAY FOUR: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24
“Wallace said we couldn’t march ...”: WNEW’s Story of Selma, liner notes, 3.
“All that fear ...”: National Park Service, “Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail,” Lowery.
She’d grown up ...: Wofford, Of Kennedys and Kings 190.
“Mother to Son ...”: Hughes, Collected Poems, 30.
“I‘se cooked a huge meal ...”: Bland, personal interview.
DAY FIVE: THURSDAY, MARCH 25
“Come and march ...”: Adler, “Letter from Selma.”
“It was such ...”: National Park Service, “Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail,” Mauldin.
“I had some satisfaction ...”: Lowery, personal interview.
“You be rejoicing ...”: Simmons, personal interview.
“When we returned ...”: National Park Service, “Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail,” Lowery.
VOTING RIGHTS ACT: AUGUST 6, 1965
By the end of the day ...: Garrow, Protest at Selma, 181.
In less than a year ...: Garrow, Protest at Selma, 187.
“a shining moment”: Kotz, Judgment Days, 337.
AUTHOR’S NOTE
“Selma was more ...”: Lewis, Walking with the Wind, 307.
“There’s a lot of pain ...”: Mauldin, personal interview.
“You don’t realize ...”: Bland, personal interview.
“It’s the good times ...”: Mauldin, personal interview.
“They like to say ...”: National Park Service, “Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail,” Bland.