Word: carmichael
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HUGH M. CARMICHAEL...
...spent time in jail while working in the South. I suffered permanently debilitating injuries in a car accident when I was riding in a SNCC car being shot at by the K.K..K. A few years later I was not allowed inside an auditorium where Carmichael and others were speaking. I do not blame the blacks one bit. When the young blacks were ready to "overcome," too few whites, even among college students, were ready to join them. Now I see that most white students are ready, but it's too late. We have no one to blame...
...Stokely Carmichael, who recently returned for a visit to the U.S. from his home in Africa, spoke at Michigan State University last week, and black students required the 75 or so whites in the audience to leave the university-owned auditorium. Explained Black Sophomore Conrad Bill: "It had a more relevant meaning for us than for whites." Added another black sophomore, William Galloway: "The absence of whites helped to unify the black students...
Nixon has proved harmful to Republican office seekers in much more direct ways. In recent weeks, both Spiro Agnew and Richard Kleindienst visited Mississippi to sing the praises of Democratic Senator James Eastland, while never mentioning Gil Carmichael, the Republican who is running against him. Stunned by such a direct slap in the party's face, Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker drafted a letter supporting Carmichael that was signed by 12 G.O.P. Senate colleagues, including Jacob Javits, Mark Hatfield and Charles Percy...
...Mexico City schlemiel and the Munich superstar are the same person: Mark Andrew Spitz of Carmichael, Calif. The sullen, abrasively cocky kid with the sunken visage has matured into a smooth, adroitly confident young man with modish locks and mustache. More important, he has developed into a talent without peer in the world of competitive swimming. In the four years since his personal disaster in Mexico City, where he won only two gold medals (and those in relay events), Spitz has grown up, graduated from college and at one time or another broken 28 world freestyle and butterfly records. That...