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ALABAIIIA CAPITOT

Rights Demonstration Ends in

Parade and Rally Backing

Voting Law Extension

THB NBw, YORK TIMES, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1982

ByREGINALDSTUART
SFcid toTbNcyo*fiEes

MONTGOMERY, AIa., Feb. 18 -Black civil rights leaders from acrms
the Solth, flanked by a host of black offi-
cials and 3,500 to 5,m0 supporters, con-
yerged on the Capitol here today to call
for extensisn of the Federal- Vding
Rights Act and the release of two politi--
cal activisrs culicted of vote fraua.

The demonstration ended a l3day,
l40.mile pilgrimage from the pickmi
Cqurty Courtho$€ in Carrollton. It was
therc last month that &yearold Julia
Wilder and 5l-year-old Maggie Boze
m€rn wene ordered to begin s-erving 5ait
terms of five and for yeirs atter &ing
convicted by an all-white jury in 1979.
The s€otences, the stiffest in r6cent Ala-
bama his.ory for vote fraud, stirred cut-
troversy across the nation and inspired
themarch.

Themarchwasthelongestinth+-i'ire....:|]:::]:::]:::i:|::::::l:]:].:'re!.rero;i;iI,,re'iIffi
SOuth Since the hiStOriC Selma-tOMOnt- udtcdkessrlr.n d.E t
gomery_ march in lS5, which was cred- Tbe Rerv. Jceph lawery, orgmtzr oI th Barcb to Moutgorne,ry, addresslng crord outslde the Alabama Capttol
lted with lnstenlng passage of the Vot-.
ing Richts Act' Kev *H,|l"tfl"[* 

latmg raad unes thnee 'mes in the last i wb€n xlr. King rme to speak, he arso land parole Board. He said he would dowhich abolished discrimn
practices,areOuetoerpireiniue,rsi--lthryT"k wheottreissuewasconsid-lar€rwctce,sanAapplar.se. lsonextweek.

f,ing'sFarberA,Dqspe{# lffi;H"X"#m;,*#"H hmtrffi"H.*#T #""1 i*th*"#J#:;fi,:f;:ffi:'ffi
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The grow{ at the- rally on the capitot lrurieiorto disrupt hrs-iness. 

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lOeat," E saiO. "The President wafits to ls*o.* Christian Lead;fthitb;fer-

lte.ps -hgard speakers ranging froml Thce who mirctre0 the final five ltur:rslltb€thingsbacktothehandsof lence,rcetothemicrophone.United States Representativ-e Don ga-lEiles arrived at the CaDitol iust after ltbestatessotheicandie.wenoteon'let | "It's time to move io another moun-
wards, Democratof California, tothelnmn- Ttre marchers inctudeO Tsuvl'emdie." ltain,"nesaid."Webeenonthismoun-
**:Y"r-lT.l-uther-King Sr., father of ltiuzzo of Detroit, whose mother, Vioii, I nAerringtothetwowomencqnvicted ltainbtracismtoolong."
the slain civil ri8hts leader. I naO come from the North to hel6 in ttri lot vote tradd, who are now on a work r+. i

. Maj.__{.1 Ffr;; ;hi:i.or the.Ara l;ftfit"d'rHl.i,I'il;i,ffi#".tfflEd"q'ffffi-jtr1ili""gJ'"Xily"T id'""Hff*i,il''ffi#:fl:'Hlir:"l;bama Highway Patrol, estimated the lani-ras slain. - - - 
lnicnalit Afonston of Birrr-ineham tbld I:crswaatlJooiuut-ottriirsitro;;;"h;l-iffif;t"or"Firedup"and'.Rm-1il"Effi;-E"r:g:'"o!j*E';;i;H I'THTil?yP#ffiJS,X;**",the march Put the figure at 5,000 or-[t- 

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aH neagan, be'i no epod-,i;od him irii& lep Ep[_teri ute. triiqpC sozEman ana 

I to. o" t*iCio unoirsiana the Reaganter- At least 50 of those who started ttre I to xouywmd," marih leiders and otber lJu[a *ilder cao be. rfrroaded, j.il{ in 
I eoministratiois attimpts to dismfran-marchcompletedit. lsPeakdrswarned.longresstoberareof ltte pictens Cqrnties of America,5us- 
l'crriseulackvoters,,,sai6wendellparis,The march ended peacetully afterltircewhoargued$aia"strmg;'votiryluceisstiUontriat." ia young black political leader in pre.predawn negotiatisns between its or- | rights act ras no longer needed I, }, I lrrmaler Forqees Freedom 
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ioinndiruy utack sumier-comty.

ffiH#,3y#;:'li"Fiffirf,lmffim!ffitm$""ti'l ,oilLir=t..e Representauve I rodav's ranv dirrered rrom trre re6s
ib" ;:ir;i6dil6'd;Ji.i"t. m" Mont- | vative se&rtors to weareo o," ffit, I 

rtomas l. iteeo ot tuskeS&, G;-inioi 
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murctr 

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seve-ral rspects. The crowd

gomery police had threat6ed;1;G; I RiBG ;A and ; o' opGed-;.d;i# lP_B*"tT1*jr in Alabama, said in an I was noticeablv smaller than the 25,000

Wednesday night to arrest any demon- lttrat was*fr1r.J1i,.#?jrf"xi&Tsr#?*.1",--"'i!'Hdffiil:l lHl}f$#ffiffi?ffiHil#!
oneblock, rathe.tha"tbree, f-;C;l-'-' .raxranra**rara lget tleir freedom within six months, lally prominent fi8ures and fewer stu-
rqrte toridwea in oi-ohginar selma-tel _ chslorLqtslator 

lt"+tha"sirffiths.,;;Mr. R+r.ii. -' laeitictiriststhan"inthelg60's.
Ivfmtgomerymnrcn. 

----- | -Represeotative Edwards, a liberal l- -Tbe legislator,vho is considered thg l.. ena at the end of the demonsration
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"We don't want one block of asphalt to I nilnts ect tbrmglr tle Eqrse tast f,ear] | wnrtO interceOe, based on consultations I did not. Governor James told a small
obscure the issue of the Voting- Richts I Tday he drer clieers wheo he apoeateo I with ..tnrsted blactrs,,, such as himself . ! Foup in his office that he favored ex_
Act," said th9 Rev. Jceph Lowery, the lto tle audieoce to "tell the Senite re lgesai0$eGovernorhadaskedhimthis ltenaing the voting rights law althoughurarchorganizer. IranttheVotingRitttsActasoassedbv Ireefto delay introducine a bill to free Ihehadnotdecidedonwhichversionnow
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comp.rcTise was approved by the I th Eqrse of Ripn*enta6ves irnA- no,tE ltte womeo aird tirst maki a formal re lhing debated in lVashington he wqrld
urty uf,mcrl, wbce members had voted I ing els€." l'qu€st to the thres'member State Pardon I 

support.
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