late or the official in charge is absent. >> there are five counties in mississippi, each at least 57% negro, in which no negroes at all are registered. >> today marks the beginning of a determined, organized, mobilized campaign to get the right to vote all over this state. >> king chooses the city of selma because it has the worst record of any southern city on black voting. >> we will dramatize this whole situation and seek to arouse the conscience of the federal government by marching by the thousands on places of registration all over the city.