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Capitalizing on the low-income white voter's alarm at Negro unrest, Wallace won 30% of the vote in the 1964 Indiana presidential primary, 34% in Wisconsin, an amazing 43% in Maryland. Given a few major ghetto riots this summer, some rabble-rousing black-power speeches by Stokely Carmichael and a few more statements from Martin Luther King comparing the U.S. role in Viet Nam to Hitler's in Europe, Wallace might even improve on that performance. But he has failed to win the expected backing of Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox. Moreover, Wallace's favorite...
Applying his formula to later rallies and checking it against photographs that he himself took, Jacobs discovered that such present-day spellbinders as Stokely Carmichael and Bettina Aptheker were not drawing nearly so well as the estimates would indicate. Once again, he had shown that reporters from the newspapers were doubling and tripling actual attendance...
Besides being the most ambitious self-help effort ever undertaken by moneyed Negroes, the fund drive represents a subtle repudiation of such radical activists as Stokely Carmichael and Floyd McKissick, who insist on black-only leadership for the rights movement. Like the N.A.A.C.P. proper, the independent N.A.A.C.P. legal-defense and educational fund has always had an integrated directorship...
Within the week: Actor George Hamilton, 27, was reclassified 1-A and said, "I will go whenever and wherever my country sends me"; Stoke I y Carmichael, 25, head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, was reclassified 4-F, saving him the trouble of keeping his promise not to serve if called; Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali-Cassius Clay, 25, his appeals exhausted, was ordered to report for induction on April 11, and said he'd rather die first...
...that we can read with pride because he is "An Individual Who Happens To Be a Negro" [Feb. 17]. Edward Brooke expresses the sentiments many of us feel. Adam Powell is not held in high esteem by most Negroes. I became disenchanted with Martin Luther King some time ago. Carmichael is in a class with Rockwell...