Word: carmichael
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Robert T. Durbrow Carmichael, Calif...
...Administration is not entirely to blame for the situation. The divisions in the N.A.A.C.P. reflect the weakness of the civil rights movement in general. Many of the groups that were led by pioneers of the movement-Martin Luther King's S.C.L.C., Stokely Carmichael's S.N.C.C., James Farmer's CORE-either exist no longer or are ineffective splinter groups. Despite its size and visibility, the N.A.A.C.P. is losing out as a focus of black organizational efforts to such specialized groups as the National Association of Black Accountants and the National Association of Minority County Officials...
...week before the speech--given by Kwame Toure, formerly Stokely Carmichael--a Maryland state delegate, David Shapiro, attempted to block funding from the Black Student Union (BSU) for the event, saying that Toure's appearance was strictly political. The Diamondback, the university's campus newspaper, reported last month...
DIED. Hoagy Carmichael, 82, composer of songs that influenced the Big Band sound of the 1930s and 1940s and made him a popular music idol; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. A self-taught musician who briefly practiced law, Carmichael was captivated by the syncopated rhythm and improvisational style of Jazz Great Bix Beiderbecke. Carmichael's simple, unpretentious ballads began catching the public's ear in 1931 with his first hit, Star Dust. The more than 50 standards he wrote include Georgia on My Mind, Ole Buttermilk Sky, Lazybones, The Nearness of You and In the Cool, Cool, Cool...
...more than just the tangibles like the insignia apparel that dots the walkways, much more than the Veritas emblems up here in the Yard. It's everywhere--Tar Heel blue telephones, toilets, bathroom tile, awnings, bleachers, bumper stickers, and even the Tar Hell blue walls of the Carmichael Auditorium...