Motion in the Ocean: Some Political Dimensions of the Free Southern Theater (1968)

I was in the third wave of “students” who swept through the South with a dream in the early 1960s. Sit-ins in ’60, Freedom Rides in ’61, and in ’62 the forces gathered around the right to vote. After each wave there was a period of uncertainty while the new motion was in the making. That was a time to survey the damage and chaos which often seem to follow in the wake of dreams.