![]() He writes of covering the first sit-ins of the era in Nashville in 1960 before leaving for an overseas reporting assignment. but also by an unlikely array of young activists, many of them college students in Nashville, where Halberstam was a young reporter for the Tennessean at the time. ![]() In the 1960s, the emphasis was on direct action led not only by Martin Luther King Jr. He notes that in the 1950s, black protests were pursued mainly through the courts and led by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. To illustrate the invigorating possibilities of what he sees as democratic transformation, Halberstam revisits a pivotal period in the civil rights movement beginning with the sit-ins of the 1960s. ![]() ![]() ("The Best and the Brightest") is a timely reminder that the great strength of American democracy, "despite endless examples of its weaknesses and flaws," lies in the capacity of ordinary people, working selflessly on behalf of the common good, to rise to extraordinary heights. "The Children" by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist In these often disillusioning political times, there is much grumbling, if not whining, about a perceived lack of inspiring leaders and heroes. ![]()
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