Over time, moral appeal having failed, spirit will revive around a more pragmatic and diverse attack. Already, voter registration is the central activity of the Movement in Albany. And tiny and depressed though it is, the Movement is organizing for a selective patronage campaign against Coca-Cola.

But, immediately, the lull will continue, and protest will be the province of the few and stalwart. Immediately, there is a re-awakening to what the white man is about in the South, and a backsliding into old Southern habits. Who failed? The white man failed--failed to measure up to the conception of man with which the Movement began. These days Knight has about as much time for me as a poker player for a man who, somehow, persuaded him to play a hand as if pairs were high.

I saw him the other day in C.M.E.

"What's happ'nin', Knight?"

"I'm supposed to say, 'The Movements happ'nin',' aint I?"

"I don't know. A lot of people used to say it like that."

"Only the Movement ain't happ'nin' no more."

"People gettin' their wind, man. You know can't nothin' kill a thing like this."

Knight was starting away. I stopped him:

"Ain't nothin' goin' on around here at all?"

"Well--" He grinned. "I got me a rent collector the other night." The grin became thoughtful. "C.M.E. gettin' bad again."