It’s also odd that I don’t recall Baldwin’s visit although I’d read all his published work. His writings had a lot to do with my decision to spend a year (65-66) in Alabama teaching at Tuskegee Institute and working with SNCC. I met Stokely Carmichael that year in Alabama and got to know him a little. Later, when I returned to Cornell for graduate school and Stokely had become the leader of SNCC, I hosted him for a night at CBTA when he came to give a talk on campus. A funny story: when he was leaving I drove him to the airport and began to carry his suitcase into the terminal. He quickly took it from me, saying he didn’t want to chance a newspaper photo of him (six feet tall) accompanied by a little white guy (five-six) carrying his rather large suitcase. Stokely, who is best known for initiating the black power movement, was another strong, militant black leader of great intelligence and humanity. During my year in Alabama I was privileged to observe his genius as an organizer of the disenfranchised black population in viciously racist Lowndes County, perhaps his finest work.