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King walked ahead of Kyles to look over the handrail outside, down on a bustling scene in the parking lot. Police undercover agent Marrell McCullough (a mole in the entourage) parked almost directly below, returning with SCLC staff members James Orange and James Bevel from a shopping trip to buy overalls. Orange unfolded his massive frame from McCullough's little blue Volkswagen, tussling with Bevel, and Andrew Young stepped up to rescue Bevel by shadow-boxing at a distance. King called down benignly from the floor above for Orange to be careful with preachers half his size. McCullough and Orange...
...watching the beginning of something historic." Halberstam went on to the New York Times and to Vietnam, where his reporting on the early stages of the war won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964. But over the years, he kept up with John Lewis, Marion Barry, Jim Lawson, James Bevel, Diane Nash and the other student leaders. In The Children he has produced a multilayered, loose-jointed, sprawling history of their pivotal generation and the role it played. "I can think of no occasion in recent postwar American history," Halberstam writes, "when there has been so shining an example of democracy...
...their competition, Bevel said, was the other young...
...what do you think he did? He sent the young men...and killed them," Bevel said. "That's how we got here...
...take the burden of your oppression and put it where it belongs," Bevel said...