America in Travail

In 1968, Pendle Hill was good enough to invite me to give a series of lectures in American and Canadian universities, culminating in participation in its own famous Spring Term. I spoke on my own and Alan Paton's beloved and unstable country, South Africa, and gladly did my work of teaching. But I learned much more than I thought. I was told in advance that I would find American student life greatly changed, and so I did. During my stay there occurred the assassination of Martin Luther King...