Parting the Waters (177 page)

“waited the night”: AJ, Dec. 16, 1961, p. 20.

Kelley addressed a terse: Kelley to Page, Dec. 16, 1961, CRA.

“found no common ground”: AJ, Dec. 17, 1961, p. 10.

“That is not enough”: Ibid.

for supporting J. H. Jackson: Int. Rev. H. C. Boyd, July 11, 1985.

4:16
P.M.
: NYT, Dec. 17, 1961, pp. 1, 46.

“God bless you”: Lewis,
King
, p. 148.

opposing lines converged: NYT, Dec. 17, 1961, p. 1; AJ, Dec. 17, 1961, p. 1;
Newsweek
, Dec. 25, 1961, pp. 17—18; int. McCree Harris, Jan. 24, 1986.

dose of surrealism: AJ, Dec. 17, 1961, p. 10.

Buick Roadmaster:
Jet
, Dec. 28, 1961, p. 6.

“fires would never cease”: Raines,
My Soul
, p. 404.

“You are Jesus”: Int. Bernard Lee, June 19, 1985; also Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, CRDPOH, p. 33.

Abernathy's extraordinary snoring: Ibid.

“expect to spend Christmas”: AJ, Dec. 18, 1961, p. 10.

“long as necessary”:
Jet
, Dec. 28, 1961, p. 6.

haunted by the memory: Int. Bernard Lee, June 19, 1985.

“Andy's not going”: Int. Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, Aug. 20, 1984.

manner had alienated: Int. C. B. King, July 10, 1985, and Bo Jackson, July 10, 1985.

drafted mostly by Ella Baker: Record of a telephone conversation between NAACP officials Ruby Hurley, Vernon Jordan, and Closter B. Current, Dec. 18, 1961, File III-A-258, NAACP.

“unfortunate misrepresentation”: NYT, Dec. 18, 1961, p. 1; AJ, Dec. 18, 1961, p. 1.

James Gray: Int. Gray, Jan. 24, 1986.

“smacks more of Lenin”: NYT, Dec. 18, 1961, p. 31.

“not tantrum”: AJ, Dec. 18, 1961, p. 10.

“hands off”: AJ, Dec. 19, 1961, p. 7.

“Second Emancipation Proclamation”: King et al. to JFK, Dec. 18, 1961, Box 1478, Name File, JFK.

“Negro Groups Split”: NYT, Dec. 18, 1961, p. 1.

gifts of food: Int. McCree Harris, Jan. 24, 1986.

Pritchett shuttled: AJ, Dec. 18, 1961, pp. 1, 10.

ten thirty that morning: Document headed “10:30
A.M.
, December 18, 1961,” CRA.

unsigned note: CRA.

“I would not want”: NYT, Dec. 19, 1961, pp. 1, 24.

“it wasn't necessary”: AJ, Dec. 19, 1961, pp. 1, 7, 10, 11.

“for the accurate coverage”: Ibid.

“loss of face”: New York
Herald Tribune
, Dec. 19, 1961, p. 1.

internal communications: (NAACP Georgia field secretary) Vernon Jordan monthly report, Oct. 13, 1961, File III-A-253, and monthly report, Nov. 10, 1961, File III-A-258, NAACP; telephone conversation between Vernon Jordan and Gloster B. Current, Dec. 14, 1961, File III-H-215, NAACP; two telephone conversations between Ruby Hurley, Vernon Jordan, and Gloster Current, Dec. 18, 1961, File III-H-215, NAACP; Current to Hurley, Dec. 20, 1961, File III-H-213, NAACP.

“became involved with some hoodlums”: Medgar Evers to Roy Wilkins, Gloster B. Current, and Ruby Hurley, Oct. 12, 1961, “Operation of Other Civil Rights Organizations in the State of Mississippi,” File III-A-253, NAACP.

“Rivalries Beset”: NYT, Dec. 24, 1961, p. E5.

“Confused Crusade”:
Time
, Jan. 12, 1962, p. 15.

“damned if he does”: Levison to
Time
, Jan. 11, 1962, A/SC36f21.

also intimated: Lewis,
King
, pp. 151-54.

“flint-faced”: Morris,
Origins
, pp. 245-46.

“brainwashed” Belafonte: Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, CRDPOH.

took the dispute privately: Int. Harry Belafonte, March 6-7, 1985.

Lee identified too closely: Int. C. B. King, July 10, 1985.

King called James: Int. James Bevel, May 16, 1985.

marriage to Diane Nash:
Jet
, Jan. 11, 1962, p. 23; Chicago
Tribune
, April 17, 1965.

runner-up in Chicago's:
Jet
, June 29, 1961, p. 49.

$1,000 appeal bond: U.S. Attorney's report, March 21, 1962, A/SN17.

Jerome Smith:
Jet
, Dec. 14, 1961, pp. 4ff.

checked back into Parchman:
Jet
, Sept. 21, 1961, p. 8.

attracted forty FBI:
Time
, Dec. 8, 1961, p. 25;
Newsweek
, Dec. 11, 1961, pp. 30-31;
Jet
, Dec. 21, 1961, p. 6

outraged editorial: NYT, Dec. 7, 1961, p. 42.

mob had mistaken: Int. Claude Sitton, Dec. 14, 1983.

Sidney Mize: NYT, Dec. 23, 1961, p. 26.

survived a shotgun: SNCC booklet,
Mississippi: A Chronicle of Violence
, p. 6, A/SN16f15.

pointless to continue: Int. Robert Moses, July 30, 1984.

“We can't lose”:
Jet
, Jan. 25, 1962, pp. 18ff.

“got our feet wet”: Moses tape of 1962, published in
Liberation
, January 1970, p. 14.

Walker nominated: Walker to Arthur M. Carter, Dec. 26, 1961, A/SC33f4.

“meanest man”:
Jet
, Jan. 4, 1962, p. 46.

pelted with tomatoes: Int. A. C. Searles, July 11, 1985.

to know whether King: Maxwell to King, Dec. 14, 1961, A/KP15f26.

“level of littleness”: King to Maxwell, Dec. 20, 1961, A/KP15f26.

Fifteen
HOOVER'S TRIANGLE AND KING'S MACHINE

“four beautiful sunsets”: Manchester,
Glory
, p. 1140.

Royal College:
Nation
, March 31, 1962, pp. 277ff.

Ford publicly dropped: NYT, April 11, 1962, p. 1.

Spellman announced: NYT, March 29, 1962, p. 24.

borrowed Leonardo's: NYT, Dec. 5, 1962, p. 5.

“to have everything”: NYT, Jan. 20, 1962, p. 14.

“my mind is settled”: Du Bois to Hall, Oct. 1, 1961, A/KP8f36; also
Jet
, Dec. 7, 1961, p. 5.

“some other ideology”: King to Edward D. Ball, Dec. 14, 1961, A/KP17f1.

Kennedy wanted to shift: RFKOH, pp. 191ff, 634ff.

fifteen hundred FBI informants: Jack Levine, “Hoover and the Red Scare,”
Nation
, Oct. 20, 1962, pp. 232ff.

“couldn't be more feeble”: Schlesinger Jr.,
Robert Kennedy
, p. 281.

“Trojan Horse”: NYT, July 3, 1962, p. 27; Navasky,
Justice
, p. 37.

“threat from without”: Navasky,
Justice
, p. 37.

January 8 classified memo: Paraphrased in Bland to Sullivan, Feb. 3, 1962, FL-135.

“White's feeling”: Evans to Belmont, Feb. 2, 1962, FL-134.

came from two brothers: Garrow,
FBI
, pp. 34-44.

“King is no good”: Notation on Bland to Sullivan, Feb. 3, 1962, FL-135.

“White said from the character”: Evans to Belmont, Feb. 6, 1962, FL-136.

On February 14: Hoover to Attorney General, Feb. 14, 1962, and Hoover to O'Donnell, Feb. 14, 1962, both FL-NR.

Kennedy circled the globe: NYT, Feb. 2, 1962, p. 1; Schlesinger Jr.,
Robert Kennedy
, pp. 607ff.

Indonesians in particular: NYT, Feb. 18, 1962, p. 31.

“There wasn't one area”: NYT, April 24, 1962, pp. 1, 20.

Hoover's memo: U.S. Senate (Church Committee), Report No. 94-465,
Alleged Assassination Plots
, pp. 129-30; Summers,
Goddess
, pp. 256-57; Collier and Horowitz,
Kennedys
, pp. 292-93.

search their files thoroughly: Garrow,
FBI
, p. 46.

moved swiftly on bugs: Hoover authorized the Levison bugs on March 2, 1962, four days before asking Kennedy to authorize the wiretap. Bland to Sullivan, March 6, 1962, FL-140. Also Hoover to SAC New York, March 6, 1962, FL-NR.

no kind way to describe: U.S. Senate (Church Committee), Report No. 94-755, Book III, Vol. 3, pp. 112-15; U.S. House,
Assassinations Report
, p. 573; Schlesinger Jr.,
Robert Kennedy
, pp. 293-99.

Brownell effectively advised: Brownell to FBI Director, May 20, 1954, reprinted in Macy and Kaplan,
Documents
, pp. 41-43.

broke into Levison's office: SAC New York to Director, airtel, March 16, 1962, FL-146.

Technicians hooked up: SAC New York to Director, airtel, March 20, 1962, FL-147.

Hoover's private luncheon: U.S. Senate (Church Committee), Report No. 94-465,
Alleged Assassination Plots
, p. 130.

Inga Arvad: Blair and Blair,
Search
, pp. 138-71.

“it was the boy”: Int. Cartha D. DeLoach, June 1 and 11, 1984.

Hoover warned America: Manchester,
Glory
, p. 293.

“the biggest bore”: Summers,
Goddess
, pp. 257-58.

last known phone conversation: U.S. Senate (Church Committee), Report No. 94-465,
Alleged Assassination Plots
, p. 130.

not to stay with Frank: Collier and Horowitz,
Kennedys
, pp. 295, 338; Schlesinger Jr.,
Robert Kennedy
, pp. 532-34.

declined to review: NYT, Jan. 9, 1962, p. 20; Kunstler,
Deep
, pp. 80-84.

“My Calhouns”: Police surveillance notes, mass meeting of Jan. 8, 1962, BIR/BC12f17.

Marshall responded: Marshall memo to RFK, Jan. 22, 1962, Box 16, Marshall Papers, JFK; Marshall to King, Jan. 22, 1962, A/KP24f18.

Grooms pronounced sentence: NYT, Jan. 17, 1962, p. 62.

dynamite bombs: NYT, Jan. 17, 1962, p. 15.

“Negroes did it”: NYT, Feb. 1, 1962, p. 17.

new police dogs:
Nation
, May 5, 1962, p. 399.

“hundreds of segregationists”: King telegram, Jan. 25, 1962, quoted in
Jet
, Feb. 8, 1962, p. 46.

joint telegram to Kennedy: Press release, Jan. 26, 1962, A/KP22f30.

High fees: Int. Rev. Edward Gardner, Jan. 21, 1986.

“None of us ever dreamed”: King to “Doctor,” Feb. 6, 1962, A/KP1f6.

“we at Mount Olive”: Maxwell to King, Feb. 12, 1962, A/KP1f6.

“Maintenance of law”: Marshall to King, Feb, 1, 1962, A/KP24f18.

similar reply: King to Marshall, Feb. 19, 1962, A/KP24f18.

Marshall said he was reviewing:
Jet
, March 1, 1962, pp. 3f.

“While the President”:
Nation
, March 3, 1962, p. 190.

“I wish I could tell you”: Police surveillance notes, King speech, Feb. 12, 1962, BIR/ BC12f17.

“Whites can't stop”:
Jet
, March 22, 1962, pp. 24f; SCLC release, March 1, 1962, ASC125f5.

“the three K's”: Police surveillance notes, Walker speech, March 5, 1962, BIR/ BC12f17.

“Bull and Old Art's”: Phifer speech, March 28, 1962, ibid.

“sit here and take it”: “Boycott in Birmingham,”
Nation
, May 5, 1962, pp. 397-401.

O'Dell soon became: O'Dell background from O'Dell interviews, March 6, 1986, and July 1, 1986; also O'Dell to King, Jan. 29, 1963, AKP18f38. Earliest King-O'Dell correspondence includes O'Dell to King, Aug. 27, 1959, King to O'Dell, Sept. 4, 1959, and O'Dell to King, Jan. 18, 1960, all BUK7.

raised $80,000: Levison and O'Dell to King, Aug. 31, 1961, A/SC57f11.

“Now I am forced”: Young to King, March 24, 1961, BUK7f56.

King had asked Levison: King to Levison, King to Young, and King to Myles Horton, all April 25, 1961, cited in Garrow,
FBI
, pp. 28, 237.

Taylor gave King: Int. Rev. Gardner Taylor, Oct. 25, 1983.

Young cousins: Gardner,
Young
, p. 11.

“one of my objectives”: Young to Robert Spike, April 25, 1961, Young correspondence folder, SHSW/HP.

Months of adjustment: Several dozen documents record the transfer of the citizenship schools from Highlander to the SCLC under the tax sponsorship of the National Council of Churches. Aside from the Horton letters in the Young correspondence folder, SHSW/HP, there are numerous letters and proposals by Myles Horton on the subject, beginning in December 1960, SHSW/HP.