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...Education in Georgia, Calvin Trillin describes a sequence of events which has a prominent place in civil rights lore, the desegregation of a state university. And the expected drama is not missing from his account of the integration of Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes into the University of Georgia in January, 1961. Students stone Charlayne's dormitory her first night on campus, they deface her car, and insults and abuse greet both Negroes throughout the university. But Trillin, a Yale graduate who writes for the New Yorker, does not dwell on these incidents. Instead he chooses to report the disillusionment...
MANY reporters have found that covering the current news in the U.S. South often calls for faster-thanusual footwork. Among them is one of TIME'S Atlanta correspondents, Calvin ("Bud") Trillin, 25, who has become a familiar figure to leaders on both sides of integration skirmishes...
With University of Georgia Dean of Men Bill Tate, Trillin choked on tear gas and dodged cannon crackers during campus integration riots, and was roughed up by demonstrating students. He was with Charlayne Hunter, first Negro woman admitted to Georgia U., when anti-integration demonstrators rushed the car in which they were riding...
...times his reception has taken a more subtle turn. Last March, digging into sit-ins at the Jackson, Miss., public library, Trillin arranged an interview with Mayor Allen Thompson. "When I arrived," Trillin recalls, "many of the local press were in the mayor's office. So were the chief of police, the chief of detectives, the city attorney, a city councilman, and the mayor's secretary to take down a transcript. Then the mayor began to interview me. How would I run the town...
Last week, while in Nashville, Tenn., to report on that city's considerable advances in race relations, Trillin got word of new trouble in Birmingham, Ala., and hurried off to cover the story. First stop: the Birmingham city jail, to ask about the captive white and Negro "Freedom Riders." As soon as Trillin left the jail, a patrol car began to tail him. Five blocks farther on, police hailed down Trillin's rented car, said he had run a stop sign. They asked questions. What was his profession? Whom did he work for? What was he doing...