Word: carmichael
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Voices of Virulence. Those strong words echoed a feeling held by many, if not most, Americans. The black-power spokesmen-notably the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's Stokely Carmichael and the Congress of Racial Equality's Floyd McKissick-have broken up the civil rights coalition whose strong, united stand did much to advance meaningful legislation in the past. The voices of virulence also helped fan the riots that erupted in the nation's cities this summer. Thus Congress, which had considered previous rights bills in the context of anti-Negro violence by Southern whites, this time worked...
After the riot, Carmichael and company patrolled the city's Negro districts handing out leaflets denouncing "the bestiality of a racist mayor and his corrupt police department." Though Carmichael insisted that his agitators had not started the riot, police arrested him on charges of inciting a riot and disturbing the peace. The prophet of black power was jailed under $10,000 bond, awaiting a grand-jury investigation of the spark that became a bonfire which was not easily quenched. At week's end a Negro teen-ager was shot and killed and another was wounded, apparently...
Atlanta, which deservedly prides itself on a tradition of racial moderation, had weathered the restive summer of 1966 without a single Negro riot-until last week. When violence finally erupted in the sleazy streets of the Summerhill district, it came as a peculiar and perverse triumph for Stokely Carmichael, 25, the fiery Negro demagogue who leads the Atlanta-based Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, at once the youngest and most belligerent organization in the civil rights movement. For weeks S.N.C.C. sound trucks had rolled through the Georgia city's black ghettos, blasting out Carmichael's battle cry, "Black...
...twice-convicted Negro car thief suspected of a third offense. When the suspect broke and ran, a policeman dropped him with two shots in the hip and side. The action naturally pulled a crowd, but it was neither large nor truculent. Among the curious onlookers, however, was Carmichael. "We're tired of these racist police killing our people," he shouted. "We're going to be back at 4 o'clock and tear this place...
Armpit .38. In the aftermath of Atlanta's riot, it became clear that the principal victim was the Negro cause. Up north, Harlem's Representative Adam Clayton Powell had only encomiums for Carmichael's style of leadership. At a press conference publicizing a black power convention scheduled for Oct. 15, Powell ranted: "Even Jesus did not tell you what to do after you have been struck on both cheeks." As for himself, Powell confided he invariably packs a Colt .38 under his armpit...