At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
The clergymen helped shift the tide of battle off the familiar—and hostile—terrain in which civil rights had, time after time, become mired in the Senate. “This was kind of like getting an army with new fresh guns, fresh rations.… It made all the difference in the world,” Rauh says. These reinforcements concentrated their efforts in states, mostly
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the Dreamers are quoting Martin Luther King and exulting nonviolence for the weak and the biggest guns for the strong.
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