Dykeman, Wilma

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University of MississippieGroveCorrespondence James W. Silver Collection7-18-1963Wilma D.S. to Dr. Silver, 18 July 1963Wilma DykemanFollow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jws_corrThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by the James W. Silver Collection at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion inCorrespondence by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact egrove@olemiss.edu.Recommended CitationDykeman, Wilma, "Wilma D.S. to Dr. Silver, 18 July 1963" (1963). Correspondence. 899.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jws_corr/899. . . .. ':" WILMA DYKEMAN STOKELY 405 CLIFTON HEIGHTS NEWPORT, TENNESSEE Dr. ' JalIlesW. SlIver " .'" University of Mississippi Oxford, Misa. , '. .-De ar Dr. Sl.l ver : July 18, 1963 Jim. and I ' wish to express our ' appreciation te tou tor the pe~t1ye and warm.--hearted review of our ' S'EEDS OF SOUTlIERN GliANGE : TIm " LIBiE OF WILL ALB:KANDER, which 'the ' Univers1 tT of Chieago PI'esshas" just ' sent tous. Howeyer,they tailed· to 'include t 'he name and date o,f ' 'the publIcation 1n "hiel1. 'it appeared. " Could you please 'enlighten us? We ' ao " know " 1 t was not in The Jou~nallCi!,t " pSC)u~h~r~ ~li18~~:t:t, d sillce "' we Subscribe to ,1 t and no reVielY at our book has appeared in it. We 'wish The" JCmr'nal ' wOU1,d give" 'sOmeone like George Tinda.ll ( who·,·'=told us in a 'pri va te 'note he ' coilsi,dered 1 t a most important -b 'ookwhieh should be Widelt di s-tr1buted) or' Vanl Weodward, " or Dewey Granthanf er ' yoursel.t', '., theoppertun1tyto orin .", it to th~ atten-tion of Sou~hern historlan8 (~ , .-4 " 1) Brooks Hay., Olle of ' the President's assistants in the White 11011se , ', wro,te ' us· .. only ' y'esterdS.y that ,'he considered ' the book" extremely pertillentandvalus.ble to the continuing crisis ill raGe relati,ons ' arid was re co:nmlendillgthe chapter on how Southern women " organ-ized to prevent lynching to Dr. Mildred Horton; who is heading a new women's group on human rl,hts. -2-WILMA DYKEMAN STOKELY 405 CLIFTON HEIGHTS NEWPORT, TENNESSEE The oritiaal reception which the book has had in ' the "llorth 'has disappointed us immensely. Northern publleatiollS are &11'18.78 urging the South to "de something'ft , about the raGe problem, and yet here ' was'~ the b10graphy of a man who dedi cated hi's life to " ' doing 8ometr.ing 's''bout it 'and they eampletely ignore hinl and ' the book. Not a single Northern newspaper or magazine " rev1ewedthe bock- not the NY TI1I1ES, . " the lIT" POST, ClmlSTIA,N se IENCE MONI'IDR, NEW' REPUBLIC , TI],IE, NATION, REP'OR'l'ER, SA}1URDAY REVIhlV, RARPER't'S, ' et&. PerhaJ)s they considered Alexander 'an Uncle 'Tom who had ' no relev nee te today's frightening 81 tuatlen. Or perhaps ' they want bleod-and .. thunder instead of oonstructive action. Two mid'-west publ'ioatlons, PROGRESSIVE and CHRISTIAN CENTURY, dldcarryenthus1astic revie'/s, as did a handful of Southern papers, Atlanta CONSTITUTION, ,Raleigh liE1VS & OB'SERVER",' Asheville CITIZEII,Knoxville l:IEWS-SENTINEL~ Chattanooga TllilEsand Nashville 'TENN-• So ' you can -see why 'the "book has sold only a few hundred copies • 'We wish Dr. Roger Shu,g, director of ''' the Chicago 'Press, 'could be st1mulat'ed teadver-tise the book or l ,ssue a paperback reprint. I'm looking forward to being on the program 'in Ashe-ville "in November and to seeing you and Mrs. SlIver again. "What of P .D. 'East? Bill Faulkner? ' As Tem . Wolfe·' wou'ld say, ftO lost " and 'by th.e wind grieved, ghost, eome back again.·t ., Sinoerely, , 

Wilma D.S. to Dr. Silver, 18 July 1963

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Wilma D.S. to Dr. Silver, 18 July 1963

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