Was Selma a Civil Rights March, or an Open-Air Orgy?

Re-posted by Nicholas Stix

The source for the previous article on Selma, and the one below, is The True Selma Story: Sex and Civil Rights, by Albert C. Persons.

Persons led a heroic life, as a military aviator for Canada in World War II, a commercial pilot in the states after the war, and trained participants in the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. He also worked as a stringer for Life magazine, and was dispatched by Cong. William Dickinson. to cover the march on Selma.

Persons provided the affidavits that fill up many of the magazine-sized booklet’s 32 pages.

I have yet to read the book itself, as used copies cost $125-200. Instead, I have had to rely on reviews of it by leftists who hate it.

The lengthiest was by a Mary Stanton, from whose 2000 book, From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo, I picked up all of the stuff I wrote above about Albert Persons.

Rather than debunk Persons, Mary Stanton simply mocks him, by putting the word facts in scare quotes, whenever she refers to Persons.

She cites an article from the Tuscaloosa News, which called the stories mere “rumors.” (“Don’t Let the Rumors Get You,” March 28, 1965.)

But that can’t be, anymore than the stories about dead bodies and rapes from New Orleans following Hurricane Sandy were “rumors,” as the New Orleans Times-Picayune called them, in its attempt to “disappear” the atrocities. In both cases, the stories came from people who used their real names, and in the case of Selma, law enforcement officers swore out affidavits. Thus, the stories were either true or fabricated, but were not “rumors.”

And what of the reporters, who said that the only thing they recognized of the Selma stories published under their bylines was their names?

But Mary Stanton must be believed. At the time of her book’s publication, she was the personnel director of New York City’s Marxist Riverside “Church.” Amazon presently identifies her as having a public sector job:

“MARY STANTON is a public administrator for the Town of Mamaroneck in Westchester County, New York. She has taught at the University of Idaho, the College of St. Elizabeth in New Jersey, and Rutgers University. Her work has appeared in Southern Exposure, Alabama Heritage, and the Gulf South Historical Review. Stanton is also the author of From Selma to Sorrow (Georgia) and Freedom Walk.”

 

An Amazon reader review by Gary F. Taylor calls Persons’ booklet

“an extended, racist, and extremely inflammatory tract that casts seemingly endless aspersions on Dr. Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement, and those who supported it.

“The inside cover is typical of the work. It shows a photo (all photos are black and white) of a crowd of demonstrators, black and white, standing on wet asphalt. The caption reads, in part, ‘On the night of March 10, 1965, these demonstrators, who knew that once they left the area they would not be able to return, urinated en masse in the street on the signal of James Forman, SNCC Executive Director.’”

“The magazine breaks down in to several articles. One describes many religious supporters of the demonstrations as misled and attacks Dr. Martin Luther King as a liar and hypocrite. Protests are described as filled with corruption, clergy impersonations, public sex, prostitution, and drunkenness. So-called Affidavits describe public sex between black and white. Another article viciously smears Bayard Ruskin [sic] and Rev. Ralph Abernathy, ‘How Images Are Created’ attempts to discredit photographs that show police attacks on protestors, and still another article brands Martin Luther King a communist.

“I would describe this publication as the worst piece of propagandistic trash imaginable. It is in the collection of various colleges and universities, and that is where it belongs, in places where people and study it as an example of the racism of its era. But if you encounter it elsewhere … I recommend consigning it to the nearest fireplace.”

Degeneracy on the March

May 1995
American Renaissance

The following excerpts are from sworn affidavits made by witnesses to the events in Selma and Montgomery in March 1965.

V.B. Bates, Deputy Sheriff of Dallas County:

To begin with, I saw white females in from other counties, other states I believe, building up their sexual desires with Negro males. After a few minutes of necking and kissing, the Negro male would lead them off into the Negro housing project. I watched this procedure many times.

Black man, name withheld:

[M]en and women used this room [in the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee headquarters] for sex freely and openly and without interference. On one occasion I saw James Forman, executive director of SNCC, and a red-haired white girl whose name is Rachel, on one of the cots together. They engaged in sexual intercourse, as well as an abnormal sex act . . . Forman and the girl, Rachel, made no effort to hide their actions.

During this same period, March 8, 9, and 10, a large number of young demonstrators of both races and sexes occupied the Jackson Street Baptist Church for approximately forty-eight hours;. . .;On one occasion, I saw a Negro boy and a white girl engaged in sexual intercourse on the floor of the church. At this time, the church was packed and the couple did nothing to hide their actions. While they were engaged in this act of sexual intercourse, other boys and girls stood around and watched, laughing and joking.

Corporal H.M. Brown, Alabama State Troopers:

I observed on many occasions the so called men of the cloth, who were white, fondling the breasts and buttocks of black female demonstrators. On numerous occasions, I saw couples of the opposite sex and color leaving the crowd, fondling each other and going into the houses and alleys along Sylvan Street.

Since 1961, I have observed mobs and demonstrations, but the crowd of demonstrators in Selma, Alabama, was the lowest scum of the earth. This gathering of demonstrators in Selma included the largest crowd of sex degenerates that I have ever observed in one place in my life. They had no morals or scruples and did not appear to care who saw them during their orgies.

Captain Lionel Freeman, Alabama State Troopers:

One Negro who was standing beside a priest and both standing about three feet from a line of troopers, made several attempts to provoke a trooper into hitting him. The Negro waved three dollar bills in the trooper’s face and then dropped them, saying ‘Why don’t you pick them up, I know you need it.’. . . The Negro then said, ‘I’ll sleep with a white woman tonight.’ The priest seemed to think this was real funny.

[S]everal newspapermen who were allowed to go to the rear of the demonstration came back up to the front and told us they observed white and Negro couples in the act of sexual relations. They told us that they had sent the story and pictures home to their papers. One told me that the only thing he recognized about his story when it was printed was his name.

Lieutenant J.L. Fuqua, Alabama State Troopers:

I also saw Negro men feel the breasts and butts of white girls, making no attempt to hide this, but rather appearing like they wanted everyone to see them.

Charles R. McMillan, Selma policeman:

Both Negroes and white demonstrators were bedding down side by side. A young teenage Negro boy and girl were engaged in a sexual intercourse [sic] that was interrupted by a newsman who attempted to take a picture of the act.

Selma citizen:

I, Marion J. Bass, did, on the night of the 23rd of March 1965, see at the camp site of the Selma to Montgomery march, a young white girl and a colored man having sex relations. They were on the ground out in the open and did not try in any way to hide as I walked within six or eight feet of them.

There were many colored girls and white boys laying in the same sleeping bags. I also saw a white girl about 17 years old and four colored boys get into the back of a truck and close the doors . . . They were in the truck about 45 minutes and when they opened the door to get out, the girl was dressing.

Lieutenant R.E. Etheridge, Alabama State Troopers:

The action and movement of the two wrapped in the quilt left no doubt whatever that they were having sexual intercourse. They were within 30 feet of the main body of demonstrators, and in plain view of them. They remained on the ground for about 20 minutes, got up and went toward Brown’s Chapel Church.

On the morning of March 14th, at about 11:00 a.m. I saw a white preacher with a Negro girl in the back seat of an automobile. He had her breasts out of her blouse and was handling them.

I observed white ministers on at least three occasions who were in what appeared to be a very intoxicated condition.

First Lieutenant Samuel Carr, Alabama National Guard:

I hereby further swear and attest that during such time of duty with my National Guard unit, I personally saw one case of sexual intercourse between a young white boy and Negro girl. I further swear and attest that I saw occasions of public urination . . .

Cecil Atkinson, resident of Prattville, Alabama:

Between Selma and the first stop, I observed both men and women relieving themselves in public, all together and making no attempt to conceal themselves at all.

At one point I observed a young beatnik-type man with his collar turned around to resemble a priest. He told me that it was ‘the way to get along.’ Another told me that he had been offered $15 a day, three meals a day, and all the sex he could handle if he would come down and join in the demonstration from up North.

Mrs. Nettie Adams, resident of Montgomery:

There were white and Negro people all over the Ripley Street side of St. Margaret’s Hospital [in Montgomery on March 15] . . .. They were all kissing and hugging. This one particular couple on St. Margaret’s lawn was engaged in sexual relations — a white woman (skinny blond) and a Negro man. After they were through, she wiggled out from beneath him and over to the man lying to the left of them on the lawn and started kissing and caressing his face.