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Elizabeth Hardwick: Selma, Alabama: The Charms of Goodness

“How do they see themselves, we wonder, these posse-men, Sheriff Clark’s volunteers, with their guns and sticks and helmets, nearly always squat, fairfaced, middle-aged delinquents and psychopaths?”

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