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...executive secretary of S.N.C.C., in August 1963: "There's going to be a considerable amount of violence if major changes are not made. I daresay that 85% of the Negro population, if not 95%, does not adhere to nonviolence or does not believe in it." Negro Author Louis Lomax: "The Negro masses are angry and restless, tired of prolonged legal battles that end in paper decrees." Author James Baldwin: "To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time...
...poor like Job's turkey. But my first memory was to ride a stick horse and my first wishes and desires was to be a wild and woolly cowboy." A wild and woolly cowboy that little boy became, and many years later, encouraged by Folk Singer John Lomax, the old wrangler rustled up a stub pencil to scribble off the story of "what I have saw." Published locally in 1943 and now nationally for the first time, A Stove-Up Cowboy's Story comes jackknifing off the page with all the red-eyed energy of the life...
Young and Hicks agreed, pending approval by their followers. When they returned to Bogalusa, however, they found Negro Author Louis Lomax, who had arrived from Los Angeles with what he called "15,000 of the biggest dollars you've ever seen." When Young and Hicks reported the Governor's request, Lomax made a fiery speech against it. Young and Hicks telephoned McKeithen, getting him out of bed, and told him the deal was off. McKeithen then asked for-and got-an invitation to come to Bogalusa for more talk...
McKeithen met with Young, Hicks, Lomax, Charlie Sims, leader of the Deacons for Defense and Justice, and others. During the hour-and-a-half session, McKeithen asked: "You've been demonstrating for six months and what did it get you?" Retorted Sims: "It got you to come down here, didn't it?" Lomax told McKeithen: "Once we get our freedom here in Louisiana, I'm gonna move in and run agin you." Later, at a mass meeting, Lomax said that CORE would bring in "some of the biggest religious names in the world, the same people...
...warps not only the Negro but themselves. "There has been a change of action," says one Negro leader, "but not a change in heart." The ancient clichés still abound, including the notion that most Negroes really don't want equality. As Negro Author Louis E. Lomax points out ironically in Harper's: "I have yet to meet a white man whose cook believed in integration...