Word: carmichael
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Baton Rouge's Southern University, he majored in sociology for three years, then dropped out in 1962 before graduating to devote his energies to civil rights work, eventually for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. By the time he took over as S.N.C.C.'s national chairman from Stokely Carmichael in 1967, he had become H. Rap Brown, an intractable militant in the Afro hair style, sunglasses and denims that became his uniform. "You'll be happy to have me back when you hear from him," Carmichael joked to reporters...
From '68 I have a row of buttons on my bulletin board--McCarthy, Kennedy and Humphrey. In '69 I wore a "Carmichael" button and went house to house with the candidate individually meeting every voter in the congressional district. The incumbent never left Washington and stayed there in November with 66 per cent of the vote. The last button on my bulletin board says "Goodell...
...should not be any alien infiltrators or occupiers. The North Vietnamese must go home, the Americans must go home, the police must stay away, the Berkeley veterans have no business here, the French must stay out, the welfare mothers must stay out, the federal government must stay out, Stokeley Carmichael must stay...
...meeting was held in an office whose walls were lined with the yellowing photographs of one-time Young Democrat speakers: former President Lyndon B. Johson, Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) and the late Adlai E. Stevenson. McCarthy campaign literature and leaflets announcing a 1966 Stokely Carmichael address littered the floor...
...higher levels, at least, black protest sometimes bears a surprising resemblance to black capitalism. Last week, for instance, the Internal Revenue Service disclosed a claim against Expatriate Stokely Carmichael, former chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and his wife, Singer Miriam Makeba, for $48,193 in income taxes for 1968 and 1969. Reporter Tim Findley of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote up a visit he recently paid to the $700-a-month penthouse pad of Black Panther Supreme Commander Huey P. Newton. " 'I stay here because it's a security building,' Newton said, looking...