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THE WEEK, Page 22SOCIETYEt Cetera
MAKING IT GOD'S COUNTRY
No town is more emblematic of the South's segregationist past
than Selma, Alabama, where black Baptist clergyman Martin
Luther King Jr. led a climactic civil rights march in 1965. But
a racial line has now disappeared in Selma, as delegates from
24 congregations in Alabama's dominant Southern Baptist faith
voted to admit the Freedom Baptist Church as the first black
member of the city's Baptist association. Said newly entering
pastor Letha Rumph: "I can see that a revival has begun in
Selma." A white colleague, the Rev. Ron Davis, chimed in: "God
won't let us fail."