King expressed similar sentiments to SCLC’s staff at the Frogmore retreat. “The decade of 1955 to 1965, with its constructive elements, misled us,” King said. “Everyone underestimated the amount of rage Negroes were suppressing, and the amount of bigotry the white majority was disguising.” True, the movement had won some battles, “but we must admit that there was a limitation to our achievement,” King emphasized. “The white power structure is still seeking to keep the walls of segregation and inequality substantially intact,” and was beating back the movement’s assaults.
