Word: carmichael
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carmichael automatically became a U.S. citizen when his parents were naturalized in the early 1950s. Though several Congressmen would like to see him arrested for sedition-or on any other applicable charge-Attorney General Ramsey Clark has opposed any legal action in the belief that the Government's case might make Carmichael a martyr and would probably not hold up in court. Thus, when-and if-Carmichael finally does return to Hell, U.S.A., the most that he is likely to suffer is confiscation of his passport. Reason: as a U.S. citizen he broke the State Department's rule...
...many creative Negroes past and present, he wants to remain in this country. "I'm not against America; I'm against the American philosophy." If Patrick Henry is a legitimate hero to whites, blacks have just as much right, he feels, to idolize such men as Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Muhammad Ali, and Rap Brown...
...procession of hot summers, a raging Negro separatist movement-and perhaps in the end a costly showdown between black and white that might send U.S. race relations all the way back to the post-Reconstruction period. The new movement quickly developed its list of fanatical leaders: Stokeley Carmichael, H. Rap Brown, Ron Karenga and, in his special way, Cassius Clay. It fed largely on the despair and disaffection of the poor, the uneducated, the slum-bound Negro who had nothing to lose but his life...
...this context that the expression of Black Power brought anguish to the moderate civil rights organizations. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People called Stokeley Carmichael's kind of Black Power "racism in reverse." He deplores the attitude of the black radical fringe, which has lost all faith in the democratic process, and is convinced that it must be scrapped. "I can't help viewing the unilateral black philosophy as being as open to question as the unilateral white system," he says. But Wilkins takes an entirely different attitude toward...
...moving to control our African-American communnities, as you are moving to wrest control of your countries, of the entire Latin continent, from the hands of foreign imperialist powers."--Stokely Carmichael in Havana...