Marlene Nadle, Author at The Village Voice

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First Draft of History: Covering Civil Rights in the Sixties

As an aspiring reporter, the author wrote about race issues as they moved from idealism to disillusion to anger to violence.

by Marlene Nadle

March 28, 2023

From The Archives

The View from the Front of the Bus

The day was full of TV cameras, spontaneous singing, speeches, clapping, and the echo of Martin Luther King’s phrase: “I have a dream … ”

by Marlene Nadle

Originally published: September 5, 1963

From The Archives

Malcolm X: The Complexity Of a Man in the Jungle

"The greatest mistake of the Movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first then you’ll get action."

by Marlene Nadle

Originally published: February 25, 1965

From The Archives

The Abortionist on the Circuit of Fear

Before Roe, terminating a pregnancy meant confronting a nightmare of quacks and butchers, knitting needles and wire coat hangers. The exceptions were people like Dr. X, “the stars of the underground abortion circuit.”

by Marlene Nadle

Originally published: August 18, 1966

NYC ARCHIVES

The Coming of King: A Charismatic Moment

From our First Draft of History Department comes an on-the-scene account of the day in June 1967, when Martin Luther King, Jr. came to Harlem to speak to hospital workers: “We shall overcome. No lie can live forever.”

by Marlene Nadle

Originally published: June 22, 1967

Protest Archives

A Radical Departure: On Not Interviewing the Patriot Party

"The new left, like the old, is beginning to subordinate the individual, his needs, his feelings, his beliefs, to the cause. And that isn't my kind of movement."

by Marlene Nadle

Originally published: May 7, 1970

From The Archives

Burying Malcolm X

"Malcolm had been the spokesman for that part of all blacks that is in constant rage at their life in the land of the rich and the home of the righteous"

by Marlene Nadle

Originally published: March 4, 1965

Marlene Nadle

First Draft of History: Covering Civil Rights in the Sixties

As an aspiring reporter, the author wrote about race issues as they moved from idealism to disillusion to anger to violence.

The View from the Front of the Bus

The day was full of TV cam­eras, spontaneous singing, speeches, clapping, and the echo of Martin Luther King’s phrase: “I have a dream … ”

Malcolm X: The Complexity Of a Man in the Jungle

"The greatest mistake of the Movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first then you’ll get action."

The Abortionist on the Circuit of Fear

Before Roe, terminating a pregnancy meant confronting a nightmare of quacks and butchers, knitting needles and wire coat hangers. The exceptions were people like Dr. X, “the stars of the underground abortion circuit.”

The Coming of King: A Charismatic Moment

From our First Draft of History Department comes an on-the-scene account of the day in June 1967, when Martin Luther King, Jr. came to Harlem to speak to hospital workers: “We shall overcome. No lie can live forever.”

A Radical Departure: On Not Interviewing the Patriot Party

"The new left, like the old, is beginning to subordinate the individual, his needs, his feelings, his beliefs, to the cause. And that isn't my kind of movement."

Burying Malcolm X

"Malcolm had been the spokesman for that part of all blacks that is in constant rage at their life in the land of the rich and the home of the righteous"

The day was full of TV cameras, spontaneous singing, speeches, clapping, and the echo of Martin Luther King’s phrase: “I have a dream … ”