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1media/caroisr-1958-02-19-Speeches.jpg2022-10-25T18:25:43-07:00Dawn Schmitz058a3a82673b345aeb84d7969cae24e0a5c62dd1413246plain2024-10-29T14:37:54-07:00Dawn Schmitz058a3a82673b345aeb84d7969cae24e0a5c62dd1Correspondence between Golden and John Steinbeck, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for literature, was warm and clever. A postcard sent by Steinbeck in 1963 about a soon-to-be candidate for president said only, “Barry Goldwater promises to lead us out of Egypt, and I believe he could do it too. Trouble is, we ain’t in Egypt.” In another letter, Steinbeck wrote movingly about the growing anger fueling the civil rights movement, saying that the “unbelievable patience and forbearance of the Negro [has] so far been unique in revolutionary history. I am saddened but not surprised to see the edges of patience giving way to rage.”
1media/goldhar-ms0020-pt2-014-068-detail_thumb.jpg2024-09-13T08:05:25-07:00Letter from John Steinbeck to Harry Golden (detail)4Brief excerpt from letter in which Steinbeck relates his views on the Civil Rights movement.Handwritten letter containing the sentence, "I am saddened but not surprised to see the edges of patience giving way to rage."media/goldhar-ms0020-pt2-014-068-detail.jpgplain2024-10-02T11:55:08-07:00