2019
Chapter XII: Clean For Gene
The Pennsylvania presidential primary provides a bitter lesson in how the Democratic Party machine subverted the will of the voters.
2019
Chapter XI: The Demise of SCORE: Viet Nam Takes Center Stage
The student civil rights group disbanded in the fall of 1967, and anti-war fever swept up the activists still on campus.
2019
Chapter IX: LCFO, SNCC, AND DICK GREGORY
After the first anniversary rally of the Selma March, we spend an afternoon with Stokely, Dick Gregory, and Julian Bond.
2019
Chapter VIII: Down In Dallas County
We were Selma, AL over Easter 1966 doing voter registration when we ran into Stokley Carmichael and his Black Panther.
2019
Chapter X: The Insurance Company
It took a year to produce, but the civil rights gang plus outriders produced a full-fledged musical in support of the student civil rights group SCORE…
2019
Chapter VII: Summer Idyll
In the summer of 1965, I was on the on-campus editor of the SCORE newsletter and point person for communications
2019
Chapter VI: Circling The Wagons
The student body was mostly hostile, and the newly-formed Student Committee on Racial Equality was blocked at every turn.
2019
Chapter V: The Aftermath, Including The Little Red Book, Part 2
One professor badly hurt, a student jailed, the college on TV and in the national press. The administration was not amused.
2019
Chapter IV: Three Days In Montgomery
The three days of mayhem began with a church service at MLK’s Dexter Avenue Church.
2019
Chapter III: The Little Red Book
My unused diary from the previous year documented the five tumultuous days prior to our departure for the Deep South.