James Baldwin and Britain

Report of group meeting with Bobby Kennedy on race issue

Source: The Times

June 4 1963: 10

‘Demand for presidential lead on U.S. race issue’

Uncredited report of group meeting with Bobby Kennedy on race issue: ‘Mr Baldwin was one of the negro intellectuals whom the Attorney General met last week in what was afterwards described as a naïve attempt to bridge the gap of growing alienation. By all accounts it was a fiasco’.