King faced growing hostility. In Alabama, one writer called him “the prophet from Oslo,” adding that the prophet was more interested in winning headlines than winning reform. Hadn’t Selma integrated its restaurants? Hadn’t the city followed the federal judge’s order by extending the hours for voter registration? When the history of Selma is presented in fifty or one hundred years, wrote Don W. Wasson, managing editor of The Montgomery Advertiser, it might read: “In one city in Alabama, Selma in Dallas County, the white people tried to meet the demands of the times as dictated by the federal
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