This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Christopher, Fr.".
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1965/03/14 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks for your letter and for your encouraging words. The response to the book has been complex |
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Selma, Alabama, and the Selma-to-Montgomery March for voters' rights - the white South does not progress with hard-won changes, there is "only withdrawal into deeper bitterness and resentment" / emphasis on "helping the Negro and the white man" - whites "in worse shape, morally and psychologically"
«detailed view» |
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