Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Palmer (who feels the term "Negro" is degrading and uses "Afro-American" or "black" instead) did much of the planning for three "Afro-American rallies" during the summer. At the rallies, there was dancing, poetry, speeches, all equally inflammatory. The last one drew 2,000 people. It was supposed to be held in a church, but there wasn't enough room, so everyone moved out to the only place in North Philadelphia where there was enough -- the street. The rally took five hours and traffic was detoured around...
...walls inside are papered with the buff, broad-lined sheets that take any Philadelphian back to his first days in school. The printing on them, broad and labored, is by six and seven-year-olds. "AFRO-AMERICANS ARE BLACK," several of them read. "I AM AN AFRO-AMERICAN. I AM BLACK...
...after the riots. In an area studded by Teen Posts, offices of OEO and OIC and Headstart, it is one of the few establishments that the residents can call their own: they own it, they run it, and they decide what happens in it. It is here, accompanied by Afro-Cuban jazz made by local musicians, that the "grassroots" voices can be heard. Tortured images of Negro life by local artists cover the walls. African sculpture stands in the corners. Just inside the door is a poster with a black panther on it and "black power" inscribed above, and another...
...implement his new beliefs he created the Muslim Mosque, Inc. and the Organization for Afro-American Unity, religious and secular organizations designed to appeal to a larger segment of the Negro masses than the Black Muslims...
...Association of African and Afro-American Students last week elected Hubert E. Sapp '67 of Eliot House and Augusta, Georgia, president for 1966-67. Other officers elected were Gall Snowden '67, vice-president, Chandra Saldi '67, secretary, and Robert C. Scott '67, treasurer. Also elected to the executive committee were Charles J. Hamilton '69, Jeffrey P. Howard '69, Charles F. Lovell '68, and Elvin Montgomery...