“The spirit of Gandhian agape that hung like a halo over Selma, with its nuns and angelic-faced students, was gone, replaced by a clenched militancy fueled by a despair expressed by Martin King's admission that his dream of Washington 1963 has turned into a nightmare.”
Originally published June 30, 1966
“The Movement in Amite County is pure and religious, uncontaminated by organizational in-fighting and hyper-militancy. It is just two solitary organizers and a handful of local Negroes.”
Originally published December 2, 1965