Word: bayards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Responsible Negro leaders, in consequence, are beginning to speak out against the separatist and racist implications of the philosophy. " 'Black power' not only lacks any real value for the civil rights movement," writes Bayard Rustin, organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, in the current Commentary, "but its propagation is positively harmful. It diverts the movement from a meaningful debate over strategy and tactics, it isolates the Negro community, and it encourages the growth of anti-Negro forces...
...Bayard Rustin...
Among the most vociferous critics are the poor and the leaders of the poor. Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin has condemned the campaign as "a bag of tricks." Professional Organizer Saul Alinsky has blistered it as "a prize piece of political pornography." There have been countless charges of nepotism, malfeasance and administrative fiddledeedee, of demeaning interagency squabbles in the capital and squalid scandals in the boondocks...
Both were members of the Commission on Free Elections in the Dominican Republic, chaired by Bayard Ruston, which surveyed pre-election conditions through out the island last week...
...names and a picker of brains whom a friend once proposed for the egomania championship of the world. Somewhat muffled in this irritatingly bland and overextended biography by The New Yorker's E. J. Kahn Jr. (The Big Drink; A Reporter Here and There], the late Herbert Bayard Swope nevertheless emerges as a personality of extravagant proportions...