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

The detail from the conversation
between Pritchett and King about
Pritchett’s wedding anniversary is cited
in Howell Raines, My Soul Is Rested:
The Story of the Civil Rights Movement
in the Deep South (Penguin, 1983),
363–65.
Walker’s explanation for why the
movement needed Bull Connor’s
opposition (“There would be no
movement, no publicity”) is quoted in
Michael Cooper Nichols, “Cities Are
What Men Make Them: Birmingham,
Alabama, Faces the Civil Rights
Movement 1963,” Senior Thesis, Brown
University, 1974, page 286.
Walker’s reaction to the use of K-9