Dialog In Black And White

December, 1966

Dialog in Black and WhiteThis dialog between James Baldwin and Budd Schulberg began spontaneously. They have been friends for years--a relationship that has included fervent agreement and fierce disagreement. There had been one evening long ago when they had argued into the earlymorning hours about the motives of Bobby Kennedy in backing the efforts of James Meredith to break through the color barrier at Ole Miss. Baldwin suspected that Kennedy's was a grandstand play and that he did not care pr...