At the mass meeting that night, Wilkins took to the stage and spoke passionately, in terms Medgar had used before. “In Birmingham,” he said, “the authorities turned the dogs and fire hoses loose on peaceable demonstrators. Jackson has added another touch to this expression of the Nazi spirit with the setting up of hog-wired concentration camps. This is pure Nazism and Hitlerism. The only thing missing is an oven.”
