Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...message was brutally harsh: "Fifteen dollars per nigger." In these words, a newly formed National Black Economic Development Conference last month demanded that "white Christian churches and Jewish synagogues" pay $500 million in "reparations" to U.S. Negroes or face the possibility of disruption of church operations and seizure of church facilities. Last week conference speaker James Forman, one-time executive director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, disrupted a Sunday Communion service at Manhattan's Riverside Church to demand, among other things, that the church, located on the edge of Harlem, turn over 60% of its investment income...
Ironically, this blunt demand on the churches originated from a well-intentioned effort by a liberal interfaith group to draw out black ideas for the economic betterment of urban ghettos. The Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO), which includes 23 Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Negro and Mexican-American groups, organized the National Black Economic Development Conference to bring black leaders together for discussions and action on the economic aspects of Black Power. The result was not what IFCO had expected. Forman took over a meeting of the conference in Detroit and called for an end to the capitalistic system...
...demand half a billion dollars from U.S. churches and synagogues as reparations for their role in supporting the "exploitation" of the American Negro. But most of the money was earmarked for such plausible projects as a Southern land bank to aid dispossessed Negro farmers and a new black university in the South...
...servitude and forced to work as slaves by the military machinery and the Christian church working hand in hand." By week's end the General Board of the National Council of Churches had recorded its "deep appreciation" to Forman and avowed that it "shares the aspirations of the black people of this country." As for the people who started it all, the Board of Directors of IFCO voted to solicit $270,000 from its members .for further activities by the Black Economic Conference...
...show had impressive sparseness. Wearing a formless sweater, black pants and sneakers, McKuen kept the talk to a discreet minimum and spent his time singing his songs-The World I Used to Know, a medley of Stanyan Street, Lonesome Cities and Listen to the Warm -and reciting a poem about one of his few New York friends, A Cat Named Sloopy. He wandered through a set that seemed to have been plucked from a haunted harbor on San Francisco Bay. If the fog spewing out of the NBC special-effects machine looked at times as if it were going...