In Baton Rouge, a Cool Welcome

In Baton Rouge, a Cool Welcome: "'We have sat in our car and watched whites go in these places and come out with paperwork to get apartments. The mayor is black. His head must be in the sand,' she said. She goes on, her husband amen-ing her every word: 'I accept what he said in terms of lawlessness. I don't believe in lawlessness myself. But what he said affected everybody. Some people were on lockdown here, as if we were going to tear up the city.'

Martin says she has been made to feel 'uncomfortable' in Baton Rouge. 'I'm a middle-class black person, and I'm being treated by the color of my skin.'"