act placement of individuals in a crowd, the look on a black child’s face, the twist of hatred on the face of a white woman. Photojournalism, like television, cannot look into the ambiguities that the word can triumph, or larger cultural events that express themselves flamboyantly.5. The opponents of the civil rights movement, in their very fear that the president favored the rights cause, contributed to defining him as the embodiment of a liberalism that would go beyond the established New Deal programs. Liberal intellectuals could think that a youthful Harvard graduate with a beautiful and socially accomplished wife must be one of them.6. The result of the administration’s caution is that in the presence of the rights workers and demonstrators it looked timid and temporizing; the result of its activity is that the rights movement gained a solid body of federal practices to supplement the sit-ins, the freedom rides, and the marches. 7. Burke Marshall did understand the moral problem and was a patient negotiator. He also brought to the Job a conservative record8. Robert Kennedy’s Justice Department was not forced to make any long-term decisions bearing civil rights, day to day decisions bearing civil rights.9. The FBI acted consistently with its inconsistent conduct during the civil rights years, when it was censorious of the movement, legalistically slow to discover violations of racial justice, and at times energetic in support of civil rights.10. Martin Luther King was more in support of Robert Kennedy’s role as Attorney General because Kennedy made almost all of the airports and bus stations in the south desegregated. Meanwhile Marshall had to get all of his lawyers together and work out to voting rights without Kennedy’s assistance....
