Why Did They Stay?

A tall, craggy, white-bearded gentleman who looks like and is the small-town publisher of a weekly newspaper has an intriguing comment about his past. Born of an antebellum family in Mississippi, his past includes Phi Beta Kappa at Columbia University; organizing investigative trips to the Harlan County, Kentucky, coal-mining areas when the deputy sheriffs were stomping on the Bill of Rights; editing the Student Review, magazine of the Communist-led National Student League in the ear...