Nighttime Demonstration News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Be on tv every night. >> white bystanders harassed us with homemade clubs, cursing us and blaming the press as the cause of the demonstrations. >> standing against them are the segregationists. >> i covered a nighttime demonstration in marion, alabama. somebody walked up behind me and hit me with an axe handle. somebody came up and asked me, he said, "do you need a doctor?" i put my hand behind my head, it was all bloody, and i said, "yeah, i think so." and he thrust his face right into mine, and he said, "we don't have doctors for people like you." it was personal. it was you. it was not bull...

Press, all the news media, right over here for a private conference. >> in every way as strong and as dangerous to them and to jim crow and segregation as the civil rights protests. >> information media including the tv networks have publicized and dramatized the race issue far beyond its relative importance in today's world. >> they're cold and a little cramped, but not hungry. >> the people who hated us called us outside agitators thought that we were of a piece with the civil rights people, that we were hand in glove. >> it's all one-sided. and the newspapers and the tv camera are one sided...

Segregationists. >> i covered a nighttime demonstration in marion, alabama. somebody walked up behind me and hit me with an axe handle. somebody came up and asked me, he said, "do you need a doctor?" i put my hand behind my head, it was all bloody, and i said, "yeah, i think so." and he thrust his face right into mine, and he said, "we don't have doctors for people like you." it was personal. it was you. it was not bullets flying in the air that could hit you. it was you that they wanted to do harm to. >> of course there was danger. but the truth is that the number of times that we faced dange...

Segregationists. >> i covered a nighttime demonstration in marion, alabama. somebody walked up behind me and hit me with an axe handle. somebody came up and asked me, he said, "do you need a doctor?" i put my hand behind my head, it was all bloody, and i said, "yeah, i think so." and he thrust his face right into mine, and he said, "we don't have doctors for people like you." it was personal. it was you. it was not bullets flying in the air that could hit you. it was you that they wanted to do harm to. >> of course there was danger. but the truth is that the number of times that we faced dange...