The Limitations of 'The System': Paul Potter's Public Sphere and the 1965 March on Washington
Author:
- Jeffrey Drury (Central Michigan Univ)
Paul Potter, President of the Students for a Democratic Society from 1964-1965, addressed the audience at an anti-War demonstration on April 17, 1965. By reading Potter's appeal from the perspective of public sphere scholarship, I argue that his invitation to a movement, working outside the system to re-orient criticism of American foreign policy, was too "counter" a public to allow for mass constitution because it resorts to radical rather than fundamental change.