<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Beloved Colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>It’s not March 25th. The 60th anniversary of MLK’s Selma to Montgomery passed 70 days ago.</div><div><br></div><div>In searching for Marsha Hahn’s email address, I came across this email chain from 14 years ago. Its relevance to our circumstances today speaks for itself. Thank-you, Anne Woods, Judy Linblad and Charles Hahn for your witness. Your words are eternal.</div><div><br></div><div>Ken</div><div><br></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_to_Montgomery_marches#:~:text=The%20Selma%20to%20Montgomery%20marches,Coretta%20Scott%20King%2C%20and%20others.">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_to_Montgomery_marches#:~:text=The%20Selma%20to%20Montgomery%20marches,Coretta%20Scott%20King%2C%20and%20others.</a><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Charles or Doris Hahn <cdhahn@flash.net><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Re: [Dialogue] Selma</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">August 6, 2011 at 5:47:55 PM EDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Colleague Dialogue <dialogue@wedgeblade.net><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Colleague Dialogue <dialogue@wedgeblade.net><br></span></div><br><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div style="margin: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="margin: 0px;">Selma seems to have captured us. So I shall tell an expanded account of Selma. Bob FishelFishel and I were the first to go from EI/the Order. We were working in the Local Church Project (what was to become Fifth City). The day after the terrible attack on MLK's attempt to march across the bridge, King put out an appeal for clergy from across the country to come and help. Fishel said let's go. I said OK. We asked JWM for permission to go and to be sent. He said yes. So that night (Monday night) we were on a flight to Montgomery. Also on the plane we met two Chicago pastors who were a part of the Clergy Cadre we had just formed. We were met at the airport and driven to Selma by a woman from Detroit who was helping the cause. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"> </div><div style="margin: 0px;">It was a very exciting event with great services in one of the Black churches at least twice a day and almost continuous rallies of one kind or another. We stayed with black families in Selma. I think it was the second day after we arrived a Congregational Pastor from New England was beaten to death with baseball bats at a restaurant in Selma. We had been urged to stay in the neighborhood of the church, but two or three pastors decided it would be safe go for a meal in the center of town. How wrong they were.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> </div><div style="margin: 0px;">The decision had been made to keep a significant contingent of people ready to march toward and across the bridge toward Montgomery. The third or fourth night we were there Fishel and I were assigned to be in the "ready to march" contingent. There were other clergy and many students, both black and white---perhaps 75-100 altogether. We all were singing Freedom Movement songs and dancing, etc. After a while The two our three rows of students ahead of us began to surge toward the line of heavily armed State Police blocking the way to the Bridge, and the whole contingent joined in. Off to the side officers from the Alabama Bureau of Investigation were photographing us. The surge would go directly up to the faces of the officers almost bumping into them. Fishel and I were in the third row. This really frightened me. If someone should trip and fall into an officer, I could not imagine what might happen. I turned to Fishel and said: "We have to stop this. It's too dangerous. He broke into raucous laughter, and just shook his head. It suddenly dawned on me the reality of the famous phrase of the period "You can't trust anyone over 30." Fishel was 26 and I was 34. We survived the night.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> </div><div style="margin: 0px;">After a few days it was decided that I should return to Chicago and help get the busload of people from Fifth City recruited and ready to go for the final push. David Scott was sent to replace me, and to help prepare for the arrival of the bus. I was to stop in Washington on my way and visit two Texas Senators and two Texas Representatives I knew. Particularly, we wanted to thank Senator Ralph Yarborough of Texas, who was the only Southern Senator to express outrage in the Senate over what had happened on the Bridge.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> </div><div style="margin: 0px;">I cannot remember who was on the bus; however, I am certain that Joe was not. </div><div style="margin: 0px;"> </div><div style="margin: 0px;">I hope I have shed a little common memory on the subject and that this has not been too verbose.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> </div><div style="margin: 0px;">Grace and Peace,</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Charles<br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Norm and Judy Lindblad <<a href="mailto:nj.lindblad@gmail.com">nj.lindblad@gmail.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Colleague Dialogue <<a href="mailto:dialogue@wedgeblade.net">dialogue@wedgeblade.net</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sat, August 6, 2011 11:25:45 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Dialogue] Selma<br></font><br>Thank you Anne for this vivid retelling. There are so many stories! We are blessed to have them and to have folks like you, who were eye witnesses to history, share them with us. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">In our pre-EI days, we were at First Presbyterian Church, Hartford, Conn. When our pastor, George Cox, told the congregation that he felt called to go to Selma, Norm and I dug into our newlywed pockets and contributed for his bus fare. </div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">These are still the times and we are still the people.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Grace and peace, Judy Lindblad<br><br><div class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px;">On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Anne Wood<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:awoodewm@aol.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:awoodewm@aol.com">awoodewm@aol.com</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><font face="arial" size="2"><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="2"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br>Betty Pesek was not there and neither was Joe Mathews.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> </div><div style="margin: 0px;">My memory of the event is vivid but the cast of characters is blurred....</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> </div><div style="margin: 0px;">I remember Donna McClesky was there and she was<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>very</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>pregnant at the time. I also think that Joe Slicker and Fred Buss were there.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> </div><div style="margin: 0px;">We rode all night on a Greyhound bus........We arrived at some field where they were putting up a huge tent.... there was to be some sort of entertainment that night.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> </div><div style="margin: 0px;">There had been much reported in the news about the "kind of trash" that was participating in the march (including the easy availability of prostitutes). Sooooooooo I had worn my most expensive "David Dow" suit, heels and yes white gloves.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> </div><div style="margin: 0px;">As we got off the bus and strolled across the field to the tent suddenly out of no where came wind and sheets of rain! We rushed under the tent for cover just as the tent pole pulled out of the ground...into the air.....and we were all knocked into what had become a mess of mud and we were trapped under the collapsed tent. So much for a respectable appearance!</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> </div><div style="margin: 0px;">There's lots more to this story......it was indeed an awesome event and I will never forget a moment</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> </div><font color="#888888"><div style="margin: 0px;">Anne Wood.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br> </div><div style="margin: 0px; clear: both;"></div></font></font></div></div></font><br>_______________________________________________<br>Dialogue mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Dialogue@wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Dialogue@wedgeblade.net">Dialogue@wedgeblade.net</a><br><a href="http://wedgeblade.net/mailman/listinfo/dialogue_wedgeblade.net">http://wedgeblade.net/mailman/listinfo/dialogue_wedgeblade.net</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Dialogue mailing list</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="mailto:Dialogue@wedgeblade.net" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Dialogue@wedgeblade.net</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://wedgeblade.net/mailman/listinfo/dialogue_wedgeblade.net" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">http://wedgeblade.net/mailman/listinfo/dialogue_wedgeblade.net</a></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>