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Jim Crow South he didn’t. Instead, he forged a note that said, “Dear Madam: Will you please let this nigger boy have some books by HL Mencken?” (because no one would write that about themselves, right?), and checked them out with a stolen library card, pretending they were for someone else.

King despaired. After nearly three years, his relationship with President Kennedy had run out of room. Although the movement needed federal intervention more than ever, realism told King he could not pressure President Kennedy an inch further. Brooding, he took the young Justice Department lawyer Thelton Henderson privately aside. “I’m concerned ab

At the age of thirty-five, Robert Moses had power. And no sooner did he have it than he showed how he was going to use it.

Chase, McLean remarked, “is selfish, beyond any other man. And I know from the bargain he has made in being elected to the Senate, he is ready to make any bargain to promote his interest.”

want.

“Sidewalk Blues,” recorded by pianist Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers in Chicago on September 21, 1926.

ALAN LOMAX, Notes to Blues in the Mississippi Night, Rykodisc 90155 [1990] Little Sally Walker, sitting in a flying saucer Arkestra chant at Slug’s, c. 1967

The Urban League, however, was advocacy-which meant action-constituency-based services to black people.