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...time of the Birmingham bombings in 1963, Robert Kennedy went to New York and met with James Baldwin and a group of Negro intellectuals. Both groups came away disturbed. Kennedy had cited statistics about schools being desegregated in the South, about increased registration of Negro voters, about voluntary desegregation of hotels and restaurants, and could not understand why the Negroes didn't care, why they were dissatisfied...
...civil rights crisis-as seen from the North, the South and the middle-has included such subjects as Chief Justice Earl Warren (1953), Civil Rights Advocate Thurgood Marshall (1955), U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell (1957), Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus (1957), Alabama Governor John Patterson (1961), Author James Baldwin (1963), The N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins (1963), Alabama Governor George Wallace (1963), Senator Everett Dirksen (1964) and Nobel Prizewinning Novelist William Faulkner...
Misread Mood. At the crisis point of Windsor's life 30 years ago, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin harshly gave the King the choice of abdicating and marrying Wallis or giving her up and remaining King. Winston Churchill took up the King's cause in the Commons, insisting that the government accept a morganatic marriage.* But Churchill misread the mood of the Establishment. His efforts were hotly resented in Parliament, and the Times thundered that the woman the King wanted to marry was not fit to be Queen...
Died. Willard Motley, 52, chronicler of Chicago's Skid Row, a Negro who refused to write about his own race (he once called James Baldwin "a professional Negro"), instead peopled his two best-known novels (Knock on Any Door, Let No Man Write My Epitaph) with a collection of whoring, murdering, dope-addicted slum whites as if to prove that Negroes have no monopoly on crime or misery; of gangrene of the intestines from a neglected infection; in Mexico City...
...James Baldwin has said. "White Americans have never, in all their long history, been able to look on the Negro as a man like themselves." The makers of Nothing But A Man responded to Baldwin's implied challenge, and have made this response the premise rather than the conclusion of a delicate and substantial film...