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The application of independent politics transformed the African American struggle.

The Six Triple Eight tells the important yet often overlooked story of the th Central Postal Directory Battalion, an all-Black, all-woman unit in World War.

With the release of the film Selma , tremendous interest has been generated among youth activists in the struggle for Voting Rights as it reached its apex in March This campaign for the ballot in Dallas County, Alabama, where Selma is located, did not begin when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The members of the Dallas County Voters League had been working there for ages; they were part of that longtime movement struggle.

They had done some voting rights work, and small numbers of schoolteachers and other middle-class Black people had been registered. League members also had filed some related lawsuits. When SNCC workers arrived in the early s, they began by working with high school students living in the projects. Hall stresses that.

Mukasa Dada (Willie Ricks), 3 November , Atlanta, audiotape.

The later, nationally known movement was the product of more than two years of very careful, very slow work. After the coming to Selma of Dr. Malcolm had broken with the Nation of Islam nearly a year earlier pledging to work in an alliance with the Civil Rights Movement, particularly the youth. Fay Bellamy Powell, a former member of the U. When they arrived on Feb.

The SNCC workers were able to get into the hall and eventually spoke with Malcolm after his lecture which consisted of an extended question and answer period. Powell and Norman invited the OAAU leader to come to Selma the following day to address a group of youth working in the movement. Church on the morning of Feb.