Down to Now: Reflections on the Southern Civil Rights Movement

Reprint of the work originally published by Pantheon Books, 1971. Written from Watters's notes and recollections. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Part history and part meditation, Down To Now is a southern journalist's intensely personal account of the civil rights movement in the South during the 1960s. Pat Watters, first as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal and then as a writer for the Southern regional Council, followed the movement from the early days of sit-ins, marches, and freedom rides through the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Poor People's Campaign in the summer of 1968.