Thursday, September 8, 2016

the last book I ever read (Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, excerpt five)

from Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein:

The press was still ignoring King’s protesters. Four days later, an eccentric white postman from Baltimore embarked on a quixotic walk from Chattanooga, across Alabama, to Mississippi, wearing a signboard and pushing a shopping cart full of civil rights literature. He got as far as a roadside near Attalla, Alabama, before he was shot twice through the head. The President’s press conference the next day was unburdened by questions about the killing or about the twenty-one unbroken days of demonstrations in Birmingham. No one seemed to care.



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