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...failure of these behind-the-scenes negotiations was demonstrated in a tragicomic fashion on May 24. At Bobby's request, Negro Author James Baldwin (TIME cover, May 17) arranged for a New York City meeting. Among those present besides Bobby and Baldwin were Negro Singers Lena Horne and Harry Belafonte, Playwright Lorraine (A Raisin in the Sun) Hansberry, Psychologist Kenneth Clark. Bobby went into the meeting under the illusion that Negroes feel gratitude toward the Administration. What he encountered was a shouting, finger-shaking barrage of anger, disappointment and impatience. Afterwards, one participant said the meeting was a "flop...
...miserable one." In New York, Whitney M. Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League, declared that it was time for the President to "place human rights above regional politics" and to "exhibit the kind of guts that he himself described in his book, Profiles in Courage." Author Baldwin has charged the Administration with "spinelessness," and has demanded that the Kennedys take a moral position and stop playing politics...
...Fire Next Time, Baldwin...
...young (29) Texan, has written a book about homosexuality that offers a report of the male prostitute's world. Cast as a confession, it is not a novel except in form; what value it has depends on its truthfulness as eyewitness reportage. It has been wildly heralded. James Baldwin: "Rechy is the most arresting young writer I've read in a very long time." Herbert Gold: "One of the most remarkable novels to appear in years...
...iron out civil rights disputes in behind-the-scenes negotiations. Bobby has attended dozens of closed-door meetings with white and Negro leaders. They have not all been successful. At one, in New York, the Attorney General sat down with a group of Negro intellectuals led by Author James Baldwin. Bobby was stunned by the militance of the Negroes, particularly when one said that many Negroes might not fight...