At Canaan's Edge (159 page)

The President went on national television: NYT, July 25, 1967, p. 1.

Two thousand Army paratroopers: Kerner,
Report,
pp. 100–108.

“Two National Guard tanks ripped”: Ibid., p. 104.

“We deplore the few who rely”: NYT, July 28, 1967, pp. 1, 11.

toll from Newark and Detroit fell far beneath: NYT, July 29, 1967, p. 24; “U.S. Combat Loss in Vietnam Drops to Six-Month Low,” NYT, Aug. 4, 1967, p. 1.

interrogation in a motel: Hersey,
Algiers Motel,
pp. 40–41; “Detroit Negroes Charge Atrocity,” NYT, Aug. 1, 1967, p. 17.

“mad dogs against the people”: NYT, July 26, 1967, p. 19; Dugger,
On Reagan,
p. 200.

stormed the Muslim mosque: NYT, July 30, 1967, p. 50; see above p. 295.

Eisenhower accused him of failing: Hoover to Tolson et al., 12:06
P.M.
, July 26, 1967, FCT-NR; NYT, July 27, 1967, p. 17.

Hoover called Johnson with electrifying reports: Hoover to Tolson et al., 10:35
A.M.
, July 25, 1967, FCT-NR; enciphered Teletype from Hoover to LBJ, DIA, WH Situation Room, 3:05
P.M.
, July 25, 1967, FK-NR; Hoover to LBJ, 5:30
P.M.
, July 31, 1967, Box 32, OFMS, LBJ; Garrow,
Bearing,
p. 570.

“I don't want to foreclose”: Minutes of Cabinet meeting, Aug. 2, 1967, Cabinet Papers, Box 9, LBJ.

“a necessary phase of the black revolution”: NYT, July 27, 1967, p. 18.

Rap Brown became famous: Carson,
Struggle,
pp. 253–56; “An Affable but Angry Rights Leader: Hubert Geroid Brown,” NYT, July 28, 1967, p. 14.

“guerrilla war on the honkie”: NYT, July 19, 1967, p. 42.

President Johnson called Hoover: Hoover to Tolson et al., 12:06
P.M.
, July 26, 1967, FCT-NR.

“If you give me a gun”: “Burning Capital Urged, if Needed,” NYT, July 28, 1967, p. 14.

“American as cherry pie”: Ibid.; Kabaservice,
Guardians,
p. 344.

Some fourteen charges of incitement: Forman,
Making,
p. 504.

manhunt located the SNCC chairman: “Chief of S.N.C.C. Hunted by FBI,” NYT, July 26, 1967, p. 1; “Leader of S.N.C.C. Seized in Virginia,” NYT, July 27, 1967, p. 1.

“I took occasion to have a Negro Agent”: Hoover to Tolson et al., 10:16
A.M.
, July 26, 1967, FCT-NR.

“We are preparing groups”: FBI HQ LHM dated July 28, 1967, Box 73b, OFMS, LBJ.

on a televised news panel: Transcript of
Face to Face
news interview from Washington, D.C., July 28, 1967, in Washington, ed.,
Testament,
pp. 394–414; NYT, July 29, 1967, p. 9.

harsh summer news on August 3: NYT, Aug. 4, 1967, p. 1; DeBenedetti,
Ordeal,
p. 191.

It provoked Johnson enough: Dallek,
Flawed,
pp. 474–75.

“Vietnam: The Signs of Stalemate”: NYT, Aug. 7, 1967, p. 1; Maraniss,
They Marched,
p. 142. The Apple dispatch appeared beneath a front-page riot story: “Rap Brown Calls Riots ‘Rehearsal for Revolution.'”

“The tragedy is that we are today engaged”: Transcript, NBC News,
Meet the Press,
Vol. 11, No. 33, Aug. 13, 1967.

clarify a new strategic role: “Dr. King's Group to Restudy Role,” NYT, July 11, 1967, p. 17.

He flew to San Francisco: Travis,
Black Chicago,
p. 166; transcript of MLK address to the National Association of Real Estate Brokers, Aug. 10, 1967, in San Francisco LHM dated Aug. 31, 1967, FK-3081.

“No one knows the importance”: MLK address to the National Association of Radio Announcers, Atlanta, Aug. 11, 1967, tape recording courtesy of Lex Gillespie and Maurice Hundley.

SCLC banquet on August 14: Program, SCLC Tenth Anniversary Convention, Aug. 14–17, 1967, b33f412, AL, UNC.

Mayor Ivan Allen welcomed: NYT, Aug. 19, 1967, p. 12. 635 Aretha Franklin performed:
Rolling Stone Rock Almanac,
pp. 131–33. 635 “a new man in an old world”: SC, Aug. 19–20, 1967, p. 1.

“Black Is Beautiful”: NYT, Aug. 19, 1967, p. 12.

“A decade ago, not a single Negro”: MLK address, “Annual Report of the President,” Aug. 16, 1967, A/KS11.

he could not understand a word: SC, Aug. 19–20, 1967, p. 1.

John Lewis stayed up all night: Int. Charles S. Johnson III by Archie E. Allen, Aug. 16, 1968, AAP.

Personal disputes and alcohol: Wiretap transcript of telephone call between Stanley and Bea Levison, 11:40
A.M.
, Aug. 16, 1967, FLNY-9-1398.

modest rat-control bill: Dallek,
Flawed,
p. 415; Califano,
Triumph,
p. 212; “Rat Damage Is Put at Billion a Year,” NYT, July 29, 1967, p. 9.

“Dr. King Planning Protests”: NYT, Aug. 16, 1967, p. 1.

“Formula for Discord”: NYT, Aug. 17, 1967, p. 36.

King's own staff confessed shock: Tom Offenburger oral history by Kay Shannon, July 2, 1968, RJB; int. Tom Offenburger, May 30, 1984.

mild public reaction to the riots: “Some at Capitol Get Heavy Mail; But Most Were Braced for an Avalanche of Protests That Did Not Come,” NYT, July 29, 1967, p. 9.

King scheduled a retreat: MLK to Lowenstein, Aug. 28, 1967, b10f374, AL, UNC.

Levison urged King not to attend: Wiretap transcript of telephone call between MLK and Stanley Levison, 12:09
P.M.
, Aug. 22, 1967, FLNY-9-1404; Brennan to Sullivan, Aug. 28, 1967, FK-3075.

National Conference for New Politics: DeBenedetti,
Ordeal,
pp. 191–93.

One board member resigned: Wiretap transcript of telephone call between MLK and Stanley Levison, 11:36
P.M.
, Aug. 24, 1967, FLNY-9-1406a, regarding notice from board member Dick Russell.

“the ancient corruptions of populism”: Arthur Waskow to Members of the NCNP Board, Aug. 17, 1967, “Vietnam Summer,” Series 2, Box 5, SCPC.

Harvard instructor Martin Peretz: Kaufman,
Broken,
pp. 207–11.

“What rubs off on you”: Wiretap transcript of telephone call between MLK and Stanley Levison, 4:40
P.M.
, July 9, 1967, FLNY-9-1360a; also, wiretap transcript of telephone call between Stanley Levison and Andrew Young, 12:10
A.M.
, July 10, 1967, FLNY-9-1361.

supported his notion of civil disobedience: Brennan to Sullivan, Aug. 21, 1967, FK-3064.

“Kill whitey, kill whitey”: Zaroulis and Sullivan,
Who Spoke Up?,
p. 129.

Ralph Abernathy confided: “New Politics Convention,” Chicago police surveillance report dated Sept. 1, 1967, File 1047, RS, CHS.

having resolved that calls for negotiations: Wiretap transcript of telephone conference call among MLK, Stanley Levison, Harry Wachtel, Andrew Young, and Walter Fauntroy, 9:15
P.M.
, Aug. 12, 1967, FLNY-9-1394a.

“‘hate Johnson' thing”: Wiretap transcript of telephone call between MLK and Stanley Levison, 4:40
P.M.
, July 9, 1967, FLNY-9-1360a.

Pickets carried banners: Clark,
Ready,
p. 75.

“Make way for Rap Brown!”: Renata Adler, “Letter from the Palmer House,”
New Yorker,
Sept. 23, 1967, p. 71.

“The black nationalists gave me trouble”: Wiretap transcript of telephone call between MLK and Stanley Levison, Sept. 1, 1967, FLNY-9-1414.

“afraid, worried and tired”: “Convention Rally,” Chicago police surveillance report dated Sept. 1, 1967, File 1047, RS, CHS.

Hyde Park Methodist Church: “Black Liberation Rally, Hyde Park Methodist Church,” Chicago police surveillance report dated Sept. 5, 1967, File 1047, RS, CHS; NYT, Sept. 2, 1967, p. 10; NYT, Sept. 3, 1967, p. 1; “Black Power in Action?,” SC, Sept. 23–24, 1967, p. 4; “The 13 Propositions of the Black Caucus,”
Militant,
Sept. 12, 1967.

“a thousand liberals thought”: Sanford Gottlieb, “Report on the National Conference for New Politics Convention,” b33f404, AL, UNC, p. 6.

“We are just a little tail”: Ibid.; Powers,
War,
pp. 263–64; NYT, Sept. 4, 1967, p. 1.

“The only difference between Lyndon Johnson”: Transcript, Rap Brown speech of Sept. 3, 1967, in Chicago Office FBI report dated Dec. 6, 1967, FSN-3410, p. 23ff.

James Forman rammed through resolutions: Powers,
War,
p. 266; “Panel on Black Liberation,” Chicago police surveillance report dated Sept. 7, 1967, File 1047, RS, CHS, pp. 4–8; Forman speech of Sept. 2, 1967, to the Black Caucus of the National Conference for New Politics Convention, Reel 51, SNCC.

When two women moved: Evans,
Personal,
pp. 196–99.

“I am here to remind you”: “Plenary Meeting of September 1,” Chicago police surveillance report dated Sept. 5, 1967, File 1047, RS, CHS, p. 9.

“masochistic fascists”: Adler, “Letter from the Palmer House,”
New Yorker,
Sept. 23, 1967, p. 86.

promised to kill him if he opposed: Wiretap transcript of telephone call among Andrew Levison, Stanley Levison, and Bea Levison, 9:30
P.M.
, Sept. 19, 1967, FLNY-9-1432a.

“The organizers
are
‘the movement'”: Andrew Kopkind, “They'd Rather Be Left,”
New York Review of Books,
Sept. 28, 1967, p. 3ff.

“Throughout the convention”: Adler, “Letter from the Palmer House,”
New Yorker,
Sept. 23, 1967, p. 56.

“I am afraid that many”: Peretz to Young, Sept. 18, 1967, A/SC39f11.

“the most significant gathering”: Zaroulis and Sullivan,
Who Spoke Up?,
p. 129.

thirty letters from rabbis: Wiretap transcript of telephone call between Stanley Levison and Adele Kanter, Sept. 19, 1967, FLNY-9-1432a.

King busily disclaimed: MLK press release beginning, “Serious distortions by the press,” Sept. 2, 1967, A/KS; MLK to Morris B. Abram, Sept. 28, 1967, A/KP1f2.

“Coalitions are virtually impossible”: Young to Dr. and Mrs. Martin Peretz, Sept. 6, 1967, A/SC39f10.

gathered at the Airlie House: Garrow,
Bearing,
p. 578; Hoover to Mildred Stegall, Aug. 29, 31, and Sept. 21, 1967, Box 32, OFMS, LBJ; NYT, Sept. 10, 1967, p. 40.

James Bevel enjoyed a prodigal's welcome: Tom Offenburger oral history by Kay Shannon, July 2, 1968, RJB.

celebrations turned into a strategic dispute: Ibid.; Young,
Burden,
p. 437ff; Frady,
Jesse,
p. 215ff; int. Harry Wachtel, Nov. 29, 1983; int. Joan Baez, Jan. 7, 1984; int. Marian Wright Edelman, March 5, 1985, and April 1, 2005; int. Hosea Williams, Oct. 29, 1991; int. Willie Bolden, May 14, 1992; int. James Bevel, Dec. 10, 1998.

how to dramatize poverty from remote: Wiretap transcript of telephone call between MLK and Stanley Levison, 12:09
P.M.
, Aug. 22, 1967, FLNY-9-1404.

gist of her idea from Robert Kennedy: Int. Marian Wright Edelman and Peter Edelman, March 5, 1985; Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
pp. 937–38.

Historian Lawrence Reddick: Wiretap transcript of telephone call between MLK and Stanley Levison, 9:05
P.M.
, Jan. 20, 1968, FLNY-9-1555a.

“a mighty fine thing”:
San Francisco Examiner,
Sept. 22, 1967, p. 6, FK-3106.

Secretary of State need not resign: Rusk,
As I Saw It,
pp. 579–82; McNamara,
In Retrospect,
p. 282; SC, Sept. 30–Oct. 1, 1967, p. 2.

several pioneer weddings: NYT, July 22, 1967, p. 11; NYT, Aug. 13, 1967, p. 31.

covered George Washington's portrait: Moore to Sullivan, Oct. 4, 1967, FK-3107.

George Bush pronounced himself satisfied: Sargent Shriver to LBJ, Sept. 15, 1967, WHCF, WE9, Box 98, LBJ; Bush floor speech of Aug. 14, 1967,
Congressional Record,
p. H22447.

precede every football game: SC, Aug. 26–27, 1967, p. 1.

convince the mild-mannered Bernard Lafayette: Int. Bernard Lafayette, May 28, 1990, March 18, 2005; MLK to Lafayette, undated, ca. Sept. 1967, A/SC4f26.

King and Harry Belafonte launched: Garrow,
Bearing,
pp. 578–79; San Francisco LHM dated Oct. 16, 1967, FK-3121.