Marshall Bloom

So the, these journalists become a huge part of this.

Even the college journalist, Marshall Bloom, who of hear- what he did at the Amherst College newspaper, he's a fascinating story.

Some great journalists in other cities in Florida who did some amazing work.

Juanita Green for the Miami paper, very, very important job.

Now, you talked about it a little bit, the Western Mass connection here with Martin Luther King, but you also look at there's JFK's visit to Amherst College.

You've got Marshall Bloom's involvement in the movement.

Talk a little bit about how these people and events really tied Western Mass to the St. Augustine experience.

Absolutely.

One, obviously, is the one that we spoke about a little bit before about Martin Luther King's commencement speech in 1964.

But the other things that you referenced, Chris... are important parts of this narrative, too.

So one of the characters whose story I chronicle here is that of Marshall Bloom, who was a student at Amherst College who came from Denver, Colorado, from a conservative Jewish family, kind of Goldwater Republicans back in the day.

And he was sort of, if you will, radicalized by the civil rights movement.