Word: carmichael
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...host of other controversial speakers have passed muster with the Committee. But in 1959 the group balked at Fidel Castro, and in 1963 a few members suggested informally that Gov. Ross Barnett of Mississippi should speak elsewhere (he did). Last week, the Committee vetoed a speech by Stokely Carmichael...
Respect for the free exchange of ideas--if not the simple courtesy of letting students use a convenient facility--should be enough to dissuade the School Committee from barring a particular speaker whenever it feels the urge. The Committee should reverse the decision on Carmichael, and refrain in the future from making another like...
...Stokely Carmichael, first to use the words, let it be known that SNCC was working to consolidate "black power" in Lowndes County, Alabama. Few other definitions or coherent programs seem to have come from Carmichael's general direction...
These achievements did not by any means comprise the bulk of McKissick's speech at Rindge. He was still preoccupied with the questions so characteristic of the old civil rights movement: "Do you believe in self-defense? Are conditions really that bad? Do you agree with what Stokely Carmichael said? (Or Martin Luther King, or Elijaah Muhammad, or my Negro room-mate...
Died. Oliver Cromwell Carmichael, 74, president of the University of Alabama from 1953 to 1957; of leukemia; in Asheville, N.C. A distinguished educator, Carmichael was no match for the segregationists when, in 1956, Autherine Lucy, a Negro, tried to enroll in all-white 'Bama; he tried to obey the federal court order to admit her, but was forced by student riots and an adamant aboard of trustees to expel her, after which he resigned, became a consultant to the Ford Foundation...