Parting the Waters (184 page)

“not competent to counsel”: White House meeting of June 1, 1963, Audiotape 90.3, JFK.

two days after King: Evers,
For Us
, p. 265.

“History has reached”: Ibid., pp. 267-68.

“next scene of attack”: Current to Hurley et al., May 13, 1963, III-H-138, NAACP.

Thompson squelched: Evers,
For Us
, p. 271.

sit-in at the Woolworth's: Moody,
Coming of Age
, pp. 236-40.

graphically depicted:
Newsweek
, June 10, 1963, pp. 28—29.

kicking appeared: NYT, May 29, 1963, p. 1.

nearby beauty shop: Moody,
Coming of Age
, p. 239.

critical motivation: Ibid., pp. 224-27.

Evers straddled: Evers,
For Us
, pp. 257-58, 262.

“Don't shop for anything”: Segment 5 of PBS documentary “Eyes on the Prize.”

David Dennis: NYT, May 31, 1963, p. 1.

“To our parents we say”: NYT, June 1, 1963, pp. 1, 8.

made it five on June 1: NYT, June 2, 1963, p. 70; BW, June 5, 1963, p. 1; Wilkins,
Standing Fast
, pp. 288-89.

King sent telegrams: King to JFK and RFK, May 30, 1963, A/KP14f4.

dispatch his couriers: Hoover to RFK, May 31, 1963, FK-127; Hoover to O'Donnell, May 31, 1963, FK-129.

Lee White declined: White to King, June 1, 1963, A/KP14f4; Garrow,
Bearing
, p. 265.

“baptized brother Wilkins”: Levison's recollection of June 1 conversation, June 2, 1963, FLNY-9-186a.

“We are on a breakthrough”: Conference call, 11:31
P.M.
, June 1, 1963, FLNY-9-185a.

“you tingled”: Levison conversation with Ann and Clarence Jones, June 2, 1963, FLNY-9-186a; also conversations with Jones and “Alice” [Loewi?], June 3, 1963, FLNY-7-441.

“second phase”: NYT, June 4, 1963.

Lena Horne: NYT, June 8, 1963, p. 14; Buckley,
The Hornes
, pp. 246-47.

stalked through his house: Evers,
For Us
, p. 273.

speculated intensely: E.g., Anthony Lewis in NYT, June 9, 1963, sec. 4, p. 1.

Tallahassee: NYT, May 31, p. 1, and June 1, 1963, p. 8.

led by Jesse Jackson: NYT, June 7, 1963, p. 14; Meier and Rudwick,
CORE
, p. 218.

grand basileus: BW, Jan. 19, 1963.

first political stories: Reynolds,
Jesse Jackson
, p. 37; PC, June 1, 1963, p. 1.

Newfoundland: Yarmolinsky to White, June 5, 1963, Lee White Papers, Box 19, JFK.

wife and newborn: Int. John Doar, Oct. 25, 1983.

successfully escorted: NYT, June 7, 1963, p. 14; BW, June 12, 1963, p. 1.

hearing of the House: House Judiciary Subcommittee hearings, No. 5, May 28, 1963, pp. 1246-1322.

“Negroes would still be marching”:
Southern Patriot
, June 18, 1963, p. 4.

“launch this kind of thing”: Ibid.

Winona bus station: Affidavits of June Johnson, Annell Ponder, and Fannie Lou Hamer in COFO,
Mississippi
, pp. 17—24; Ponder-Hamer interview of June 13, 1963, in Watters and Cleghorn,
Climbing
, pp. 361-75.

“get him off the hook”: Conference call, 12:01
A.M.
, June 10, 1963, with King, Abernathy, Levison, Jones, Walker, and Young, FLNY-9-194; preliminary consultations with Randolph discussed in earlier conversations of June 4 and 6, FLNY-7-442a and FLNY-9-190.

“Tribute to Our”: Appreciation Week program of June 9-16, 1963, A/SC58f21.

Winona mystery deepened: Raines,
My Soul
, pp. 295-98.

Wallace and the Kennedy: BN, June 11, 1963, p. 1; NYT, June 12, 1963, p. 1; Guthman,
Band
, pp. 214-17; Schlesinger Jr.,
Robert Kennedy
, pp. 366-68.

step away from the Cold War:
Newsweek
, June 24, 1963, p. 27.

forty-eight of sixty-five Negroes: King,
Freedom
, p. 88.

“We will hose down”: WP, June 1, 1963, p. 1.

“beastly conduct of law”: King to RFK, 12:35
P.M.
, June 11, 1963, A/KP31f18.

“we seldom if ever hear”: NYT, June 10, 1963, pp. 1, 20.

no one liked the idea: RFK, April 30, 1964, p. 432, JFKOH; Burke Marshall, JFKOH; Schlesinger Jr.,
Robert Kennedy
, pp. 368-69; Sorensen,
Kennedy
, pp. 494-95;
Newsweek
, June 24, 1963, p. 29.

scraps he liked from Louis: Int. Lee White, Dec. 13, 1983. (“That was Louie Martin's speech.”)

tinkering to add: Schlesinger Jr.,
Robert Kennedy
, p. 369.

no finished text: Int. Lee White, Dec. 13, 1983.

“Come on now, Burke”: Burke Marshall, pp. 109-110, JFKOH.

“as old as the Scriptures”: NYT, June 10, 1963, p. 20.

“I have just listened”: MLK to JFK, undated, A/SC4f20.

Levison called King: Levison call to King, June 12, 1963, FLNY-9-196.

Jackson movement as shrunken: WP, June 12, 1963, p. 14; CD, June 8—14, 1963;
Jet
, June 20, 1963, pp. 8—10.

Evers had asked: Evers,
For Us
, p. 252.

Evers stepped out: NYT, June 13, 1963, p. 1; BN, June 12, 1963, p. 1;
Newsweek
, June 24, 1963, pp. 32-33; Evers,
For Us
, pp. 301—3.

758 racial demonstrations: Harold C. Fleming, “The Federal Executive and Civil Rights: 1961-1965,”
Daedalus
, Fall 1965, p. 942; SRC study cited in Viorst,
Fire
, p. 222, and Morris,
Origins
, p. 274.

chained themselves: NYT, June 14, 1963, p. 16.

stoned the home: NYT, June 15, 1963, p. 9.

“Annell Ponder's eyes”: Robinson to Horton, June 15, 1963, Reel 7, SHSW/HP.

Horton had abundant troubles: Knoxville
Journal
, June 21, 1963, p. 1; NYT, June 25, 1963, p. 15.

three federal suits: NYT, June 18, 1963, p. 23; BW, June 29, 1963, p. 7; Hamer interview by Jack O'Dell,
Freedomways
, Spring 1965, p. 238.

Doar snatched: Int. John Doar, May 12, 1986.

“my guess is that a demonstration”: Tape 4817, PRA.

“bottles and bricks crashing”: NYT, June 16, 1963, p. 1.

name from a hat: Int. John Doar, Oct. 25, 1983. The name came out Burke Doar, after Burke Marshall.

“Civil rights did it”: JFK-Carl Albert conversation, June 12, 1963, Dictabelt 22A, JFK.

when three thousand:
Newsweek
, June 24, 1963, p. 34.

Marshall had just reported: Marshall to RFK, June 13, 1963, Box 3, Marshall Papers, JFK.

“Individuals will be hired”: Jack Newfield,
Robert Kennedy
, as cited in Schlesinger Jr.,
Robert Kennedy
, p. 371.

“Memorial Bail Fund”: NYT, June 13, 1963, p. 13.

Other Evers funds: Evers,
For Us
, pp. 342-43; CD, June 15-21, 1963, p. 1.

secured her written agreement: Wilkins to Kheel and Wilkins to Johnson, June 13, 1963, A/SC5f33; Wilkins to King, June 13, 1963, A/KP17f7.

gained the widow's permission: Evers,
For Us
, p. 322.

Gandhi Society surrendered: Kheel to Wilkins, June 14, 1963, and Jones to Wilkins, June 14, 1963, A/SC5f33.

“antagonism towards Martin”: Levison-Montero conversation, June 14, 1963, FLNY-7-452a.

“Lest we forget”: Evers memorial service of June 15, 1963, Tape 4817, PRA.

“a titanic struggle here”: NYT, June 15, 1963, p. 9.

“Can you imagine it?”: Wilkins,
A Man's Life
, p. 123.

“furnish the noise”: WP, June 15, p. D6, and June 17, 1963, p. 1; NYT, June 17, 1963, p. 12.

“I think the world of you”: JFK-Thompson conversations of June 18, 1963 [possibly June 17, 1963], Dictabelts 22A.4, 22B.1, and 22B.3, JFK.

present the final result: NYT, June 19, 1963, p. 22.

“hair's getting whiter”: Mass meeting of June 18, 1963, Tape 4817, PRA.

250-pound weight: Jackson
Clarion-Ledger
, June 21, 1963, p. 1.

“everyone can see”: Tape 4817, PRA.

“not just become empty prayers”: Ibid.

buried Medgar Evers: NYT, June 15, p. 1, June 16, p. 1, and June 21, 1963, p. 14; CD, June 15-21, 1963, p. 1; Evers,
For Us
, pp. 322-28;
Jet
, July 4, 1963, pp. 6-10.

rescinded his acceptance: JFK to MLK, June 12, 1963; Abernathy to JFK, June 13, 1963; Walker to JFK, June 13, 1963; MLK to JFK, June 13, 1963, all in A/KP14f4.

Everett Dirksen: NYT, June 18, 1963, p. 1.

to jail in Savannah: NYT, June 19, p. 22, and June 20, 1963, p. 19.

In Gadsden, Alabama: Westin and Mahoney,
Trial
, p. 153.

broke down church doors: NYT, June 23, 1963, p. 62; Mary King,
Freedom
, pp. 82-84.

Laurie Pritchett's men: SAC Atlanta to Director, July 15, 1963, p. 3, FBI File #157-4-2, serial 174.

ordered all U.S. ambassadors: Secretary of State Dean Rusk to “All American Diplomatic and Consular Posts,” June 19, 1963, NSF, Box 295, JFK.

“wholly devoid of conviction”: Galbraith to Rusk, June 20, 1963, NSF, Box 295, JFK.

money quarrel in Birmingham: Garrow,
Bearing
, p. 271.

closing of Atlanta's Funtown: AC, June 17, 1963, p. 5.

“arrogance and opportunism”: Reese Cleghorn, “Martin Luther King, Jr.: Apostle of Crisis,”
Saturday Evening Post
, June 15, 1963, pp. 15-19.

brink of filing: Wachtel to Matthew J. Culligan (president of Curtis Publishing Company), June 20, 1963, and Chauncy Eskridge to Clay Blair, Jr. (editor of the
Saturday Evening Post
), June 24, 1963, A/KP25f25.

1,500 national leaders: NYT, June 23, 1963, p. 63.

O'Donnell notify King: O'Donnell telegram to King, June 20, 1963, A/KP14f4.

“paid agent of the Soviet”: Int. Burke Marshall, June 27, 1984.

“whole political life”: Ibid.

these confrontations: Marshall to Hoover, Sept. 20, 1963, FK-3656; Evans to Belmont, Sept. 20, 1963, FL-NR.

Kennedy was pushing Hoover: Hoover to Tolson et al., June 17, 1963, FK-150; Garrow,
FBI
, pp. 60-61.

destroy its domestic political base: Marshall and RFK joint interview, pp. 797-98, JFKOH.

“always sort of dismissing”: Ibid., pp. 674-76; also int. Burke Marshall, Sept. 26, 1984.

“My God!”: Marshall and RFK joint interview, p. 677, JFKOH. The interviewer for this oral history was NYT correspondent Anthony Lewis.

in the White House Rose Garden: Schlesinger Jr.,
Robert Kennedy
, pp. 384-85; Garrow,
Bearing
, pp. 272-73. White House records show that King met President Kennedy at 10:10
A.M.
, before the group civil rights meeting at 10:30. Appointments log, JFK.

hand on his shoulder: Int. Clarence Jones, Oct. 25, 1983.

“time to do all that”: Int. Jack O'Dell, July 1, 1986.

“Profumo in the papers”: Schlesinger Jr.,
Robert Kennedy
, p. 384. The Profumo scandal was very much in the news at the time of the JFK-MLK meeting: e.g., NYT, June 14, p. 3, and June 18, 1963, p. 1;
Newsweek
, June 17, 1963, p. 38.

Readers of the Negro press: E.g.,
Jet
, May 9, 1963, pp. 46-47.

obsessed President Kennedy: Bradlee,
Conversations
, p. 230.

Joe Rauh realized: Int. Joseph Rauh, Oct. 17, 1983.

“Hello, hello, hello”: Allen interviews of Rachelle Horowitz, Nov. 8, 1968, and John Lewis, Aug. 8, 1969, AAP.

daughters in his lap: Wilkins,
Standing Fast
, p. 291.

President made welcoming remarks: Schlesinger,
Thousand Days
, pp. 884-85; Schlesinger Jr.,
Robert Kennedy
, pp. 375-76.