Word: carmichael
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Black radicals, too, have made the Havana circuit. It was at a conference in Cuba in 1967 that former S.N.C.C. Leader Stokely Carmichael declared: "America is going to fall, and I only hope to live long enough to see it." Angela Davis, now fighting extradition from New York to California on charges of murder and kidnaping, called on Castro in July...
THERE had always been a tension in the civil rights movement about racism. At the time that white Northerners chastised white Southerners for racism, the proximity of whites and blacks in the movement made white Northerners uneasy about their own racism. When Stokely Carmichael kicked whites out of SNCC the conflict was repressed; whites and blacks no longer worked together. Soon after the separatism drive the civil rights movement fragmented. When the student anti-war movement arose, racism was apparently forgotten by whites. A new moral purity, ignoring residual guilt about racism, launched the mass education phase of the anti...
...because the United States consists of Negroes and whites," Johnny E.Lawrence of Fuquay-Varina, N.C., told me then. "If King had any pride in his race, he ought to do what he can to support us." Said James H. Scott of Miami: "I don't think King and Carmichael are right. They live in a free country and somebody...
Sams himself testified that while in the Panther Party he always considered himself "Stokely's man." On the stand, Sams tended to speak very quickly, to mispronounce names (such as Fred "Hamilton" for Fred Hampton), to offer political explanations that were unintelligible. When mentioning Stokely Carmichael, however, he spoke more slowly and in a tone that seemed to indicate great respect...
...believe that Sams was acting under orders from Bobby Seale or other Panther officers whom he has implicated (Landon Williams and Rory Hithe) his own history suggests motivation for his actions: a possible desire to ingratiate himself with Carmichael and harm the Party which once expelled him, and a tendency toward sadism. His testimony at Lonnie McLucas' trial would then be explained by his desire to exonerate him self and to tell the story most satisfactory to the Prosecution. (Whether Sams was also working as an agent provocateur, which would explain the tape recording, will probably remain unresolved...