Delta epiphany : Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi /
In April 1967, Robert F. Kennedy knelt in a crumbling shack in Mississippi trying to coax a response from a listless child. The toddler sat picking at dried rice and beans spilled over the dirt floor as Kennedy touched the boy's distended stomach and stroked his face. After several minutes with...
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Now this problem has to be faced
- We were to try harder than anyone else
- It's to hell with Bobby K
- They are starving
- Wherever one looks in this land, whatever one sees that is the work of man
- I just couldn't make a living
- A terrible reflection on our society
- We need to make an effort together
- You don't know what i saw!
- I'd feel better if I were doing what I think ought to be done
- Bring the poor people to Washington
- It let us know that there was somebody who cared
- We don't speak of statistics, numbers, we speak of human beings.