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...internal examination of its own residual racism.'' But it is a controversial plank. "This is just some black leaders in NOW intimidating the white leaders,'' says Michigan NOW member Tracy Ann Martin. "I'm not afraid of being called a racist. My credentials go back too far.'' Asks Toni Carabillo, national vice president of the Feminist Majority, who has been active in NOW since 1967: "Is women's rights the priority issue for the N.A.A.C.P.? No, nor should it be. NOW is losing its focus as the pre-eminent organization for women...
Though the new revolutionary style of NOW is hardly the bomb-throwing variety, it will mean a return to the gung-ho exhortations and disruptions of 1960s' militants. Toni Carabillo, 49, a NOW official from Los Angeles, told TIME that the group will go in for sit-ins and interruptions of congressional hearings. "Our pattern of professional lobbying has slowed us down, and we'll go back to the former techniques." NOW is also expected to become more explicitly political by endorsing and opposing candidates for public office...
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