of your total
objectives . . . ?--
In response to Logan's admonitions, King phoned her almost daily for
more than a week in an unsuccessfull effort to persuade her to withdraw
the complaints, which she had sent to the entire SCLC board. Andrew
Young joined in the attempt, writing Logan and her husband, Arthur, that
--we are too far gone to turn around-- on the campaign. --This is very
much a faith venture . . . -- [emphasis mine)
King's reaction seems, to me, disproportionate. And yet he persisted,
seeming to believe that there was some greater level of importance to
the memo than revealed on the surface, as if . . . as if the actual
conflict between himself and Marian Logan was taking place on some
loftier plane of existence, some more crucial battlefield than a
difference of opinion between an organization's president and one of its
board members.
Sometime later
King returned to New York City and went to the home of Marian and Arthur
Logan, where he argued with Marian into the early-morning hours about
the memo she had distributed to SCLC's board. King was depressed and
exhausted, and downed drink after drink as he pressed her to withdraw
her objections to the Washington protests. The Logans had spent many
similar evenings with King when he had wanted to talk and drink until
dawn, seemingly unable to find any rest in sleep, but this night was
different and worse. King was unwilling to accept Logan's position and
talk about something else. His mood changed repeatedly as the
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