David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

Project, housed in the Moorland-
Spingarn Research Center at Howard
University. See page 35 of the transcript.
Also from the interview are: “If you get
in my way, I’ll run smack dab over you,”
page 66; “If I’d had my razor,” page 15;
“At times I would accommodate or alter
my morality,” page 31; “Oh, man, it was
a great time to be alive,” page 63; “Tip
his hand,” page 59; “I called Dr. King,”
page 61; and “It was hot in
Birmingham,” page 62.
Robert Penn Warren conducted
several interviews with civil rights
activists and leaders as part of his
research for his book Who Speaks for
the Negro? These interviews are
collected in the Robert Penn Warren