James Baldwin and Britain

‘All White Men Now the Enemy: Negroes Turn to Militancy’, Alistair Cooke

Source: The Guardian

Guardian, Mar 24, 1964. p.1

‘All White Men Now the Enemy: Negroes Turn to Militancy’, Alistair Cooke

Cooke reports on the ‘more militant’ elements of the civil rights movement (Malcolm X, Cassius Clay and JB according to Cooke) which believes that even the integrationist legislation which the Johnson govt is trying to enact does not go nearly far enough. He quotes JB: ‘A liberal is someone who…thinks you are pushing him too hard when you rock the boat, who thinks you are bitter when you are vehement’.