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...worked for Newsweek for 11 years, eventually becoming Los Angeles bureau chief. As he says himself, he "had a front-row seat on some of the most fantastic things that have happened." When the civil rights battles were raging in Selma, Birmingham and Oxford, he was there. When Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, Newsweek sent Fleming. When Nixon took his campaign on the road, Fleming went along...
...John Kennedy. Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King. Lee Harvey Ornald. Malcolm X. Diem, Nhu, George Lincoln Rockwell, Refect TrujilluHendrik Verwoerd, Medgar Evers, Patrice Lumumba, Viola Liuzzo, Rev. James Reed and Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman were among the best known...
...Welfare. Shedding no light on the mysterious "they," Evers charged people who are out to get him with a "long process of harassment and intimidation" dating back to 1963. That was the year his brother Medgar was slain by a sniper's bullet and Charles returned to Mississippi from Chicago to succeed him as field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charles spearheaded a drive that registered 250,000 black voters, and in 1969 became the first black mayor of a biracial Mississippi town since Reconstruction. In 1971 he ran for Governor but lost...
Despite all of his cold dispassion, Evers is a tremendously charismatic speaker. Berry documents the tremendous empathy Evers communicated to poor black audiences and how, through emotional speeches about his brother Medgar and the Kennedy's, he was able to inspire these impoverished farmers and laborers...
...American politician raised more questions than it answered. Should the whole American society be condemned for the criminal act of one of its members, possibly one who is mentally ill? Do the American people bear the guilt for the handful of deranged assassins who have cut down in turn Medgar Evers, John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy and now George Wallace? How just an assessment is the view that America is, in some special way, an intrinsically violent nation...