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...anger, the curses, the denunciation of public officials, the rock throwing-all evoked memories of Little Rock and Selma. But this was not the South resisting racial integration. This was New York, that reputed citadel of liberalism...
...recount this bit of the sad history of the old left because it is appropriate to Mayday in 1971, in a way far more appropriate than talking about the Moratoriums, or marching in Selma, or Vietnam Summer. Because Mayday was the first national mass action of the revolutionary new left. Mayday seems to me to have been a success, although its success remains problematical. It raises many questions for me about what defines success or failure for the movement right now. These questions reflect my own doubts and confusion and personal feelings. They certainly have no more legitimacy than anyone...
This was the tragedy of the movement during the years of blood and dreams at Montgomery, Atlanta, Albany, and Birmingham; this remained the tragedy when the dream was fading at St. Augustine; and would still be the tragedy at bloody, dreamless Selma...
However by examining King's career, Williams demonstrates that these were new directions, collineations not taken or even visible to the man the media credited with having steered black people to their "victories" at Montgomery, Birmingham, Selma, and the other scenes of the black liberation struggle of the '50's and '60's. Thus, crucial to Williams's conception of the King phenomenon is the growth of Martin Luther King's awareness and sense of responsibility which together with his personal courage made him the man and the figure which the white press and his own ego had once convinced...
Williams-feels that King, faced with the choice, initially "copped out." Exemplary of this compliance was King's conduct at Selma, which many black people consider the sell-out of the century because King failed to appear at a march he himself called. The march ended in the notorious bloodbath at Pettus Bridge. "King's response to the clubbing at Pettus Bridge was, 'If I had known it was going to be like that I'd have gone myself.' Which was what the people from SNCC had been driving at all along." King's collapse at Selma was so unrestricted...