“Priscilla and I, and nine others, had been charged with 'disturbing the peace,' among other charges, because we tried to order food at Woolworth. If not for segregation, and the fact that we were all Negroes, we would have been served without incident. At our trial on March 17, 1960, Judge John Rudd ruled that our lawyers should 'get off that race question.'” IfsShouldHas BeensFactsOrderRaceJudgingLawyerNineTrialsMarchSegregationDisturbing1960sIncidents Book:Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights Source: Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights
“Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times; that the symptoms of it are in fact very prevalent, and that one of the chief symptoms is an enormous 'gluttonism' for books.” BookFactsChoicesEnormousChiefsMiserableDistractionSymptomsIncidentsAccumulation Book:Letters to a Young Man: And Other Papers Source: Letters to a Young Man: And Other Papers