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that I did not share what I perceived to be the prevailing racial views of my community. It was the beginning of a breaking away, an alienation from Rappahannock, that did not start to heal until the past decade or so.
I suppose it was the assassination of President Kennedy, more than anything, that started me to thinking about some serious matters of life, of what it meant to be reaching adulthood in the south.
There had been earlier events that were beginning to awaken a different consciousness. In the summer of 1963,1 had first heard Bob Dylan, on a TV program having something to do with the March on Washington. His lyrics stirred something I had not been aware of, that maybe there was another way to look at the “integration business” than that of most everyone I knew.
There were the newscasts on TV, articles in Time and Life and their coverage of the movement. I discovered “To Kill A Mockingbird” and became absorbed in it. Looking back, I think it was one of the most influential books I have read, in terms of how it stimulated my thought processes.
By 1965, I realized I Was a liberal, in the sense that another of my heroes, Robert Kennedy, was. I even wrote
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