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Despite the eloquence with which he presents his Gandhian philosophy (see box), King himself has failed to convince Albany's Negroes. For one thing, many Negroes throughout the South suspect that too much success has drained him of the captivating fervor that made him famous. Says a Negro: "Martin comes in wearing his spiritual halo and blows on his flute and the money comes pouring in. But he doesn't even speak for the Baptist ministry, let alone 20 million Negroes...
...fine to keep King from becoming a more powerful rallying point. Some of Albany's Negroes somehow expected that King's mere presence in town would bring "freedom here and now," and were beginning to resist his exhortations to "put on your walking shoes" and continue the Gandhian protest marches. Said one discouraged Negro: "There is a limit to the number of people who feel the way to protest is to walk down Jackson Street into jail. Some of us think we can do the job less wastefully...
Kripalani scoffs at Menon's and Nehru's pretensions about India's vital role in advancing world peace. An old Gandhian, Kripalani declares that the Mahatma was wary of Menon and suspicious of his influence on Nehru. Says Kripalani: "Menon's defeat will change the course of Nehru's Cabinet and en courage the best men in it to make a stand against Jawaharlal...
...Middle. Standing somewhere between the N.A.A.C.P. and Snick is the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., 33. A persuasive, emotional speaker, King won national fame in 1956 as the leader of the successful effort to integrate the buses of Montgomery, Ala. King, an advocate of the Gandhian technique of nonviolence, is head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a diffuse collection of some 65 local civil rights groups in the South...
...counters (TIME, Feb. 22, 1960 et seq.). When the first Freedom Riders gave up, these students took over. They vowed that they would travel all the way to New Orleans by bus-or, literally, die trying. They were tactical disciples of Martin Luther King Jr., the Negro minister whose Gandhian methods of nonviolence won municipal bus integration in Montgomery in 1956. Willing to suffer beatings and endure jail, the students last week jumped onto regularly scheduled buses and headed south...