The Grace of Silence (24 page)

17.
Ibid.

18.
Orson Welles Radio Commentaries, including “Affidavit of Isaac Woodard,” “The Place Was Batesburg,” “Welles Film Banned,” “To Be Born Free,” and “The Peacemakers.”

19.
Michael R. Gardner,
Harry Truman and Civil Rights: Moral Courage and Political Risks
(Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002), p. 131.

20.
Letter from Harry Truman to Ernest W. Roberts, August 18, 1948, cited in Robert H. Feffell,
Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman
(New York: Harper & Row, 1980), pp. 146–47.

21.
Quoted in Gardner, p. 47.

1.
Report of Citizen’s Committee on Birmingham Police Department
, February 19, 1952, Department of Southern History and Literature, Birmingham Public Library, Birmingham, Alabama.

1.
The criticism appeared in an article written by television critic Robert Lewis Shayon in the
Saturday Review
May 1968, quoted in David R. Farber and Beth L. Bailey,
The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), p. 400.

2.
Diahann Carroll,
The Legs Are the Last to Go: Acting, Marrying & Other Things I Learned the Hard Way
(New York: Amistad, 2008), p. 131.

3.
Tim Arango, “Before Obama, There Was Bill Cosby,”
New York Times
, November 8, 2008.

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