Robert Hayling

It was quite dangerous at the time, and it was a risk.

And the person who was the head of the local civil rights movement, Dr. Robert Hayling, who was an African American dentist, who is at the heart of this book, was sort of stood, I think, between MLK and Malcolm X.

Could he be counted on to stay nonviolent? This was someone who his own daughter told me handed out guns to Black people in the city to defend themselves from some of the white supremacists.

He made an announcement in the newspaper-