Pauley describes white reactions to the Albany movement in 1961. According to Pauley, white support of the movement was sparse and hollow at best. Here, she terms many of the whites who came out of alleged support for the movement as "wide-eyed liberals that liked to talk about having been to Albany." Even worse, according to Pauley, were the whites who responded viscerally and she cites the hate mail she received as a result of her involvement with the movement. Her recollections here offer an interesting counterpoint to her otherwise successful efforts to build bridges betweeen whites and blacks within the civil rights movement.