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Atlanta, which deservedly prides itself on a tradition of racial moderation, had weathered the restive summer of 1966 without a single Negro riot-until last week. When violence finally erupted in the sleazy streets of the Summerhill district, it came as a peculiar and perverse triumph for Stokely Carmichael, 25, the fiery Negro demagogue who leads the Atlanta-based Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, at once the youngest and most belligerent organization in the civil rights movement. For weeks S.N.C.C. sound trucks had rolled through the Georgia city's black ghettos, blasting out Carmichael's battle cry, "Black...
...Madison Avenue. The moderates show equal-if more restrained-disdain for the radicals, believe that the slogan "Black power!" is meaningless in substance and pernicious in impact. If Stokely Carmichael, 25, who first popularized the cry, were not heading S.N.C.C., said N.A.A.C.P. Chief Roy Wilkins on TV's Meet the Press, he "ought to be on Madison Avenue. He is a public relations man par excellence, and he abounds in the provocative phrase." Rather than submit to the philosophy of black power, many moderates, both white and Negro, have left-or been forced from-CORE and S.N.C.C...
...Carmichael's solution is extremely popular at Negro gatherings in the ghetto, and will continue to gather momentum across the country as Negros become increasingly conscious of their "power to disrupt." But such an isolationist policy will sever communications between liberal whites and Negroes in the civil rights movement at a crucial juncture...
Among the statements attributed by the Summer News to Mr. Carmichael at his talk last Thursday evening was a distortion as to the number of Negroes serving with the United States Armed Forces in Vietnam. Mr. Carmichael is reported to have indicated that "40 per cent of the men in the front line" and "some 20 per cent of our casualties" were Negroes. On the other hand, Mr. Gene Grove writing in the New York Timer Magazine of July, 24, 1966 reported that Negroes constitute 18 per cent of the combat units in Vietnam, rather than the figure...
...Although Carmichael was quoted accurately at having said that "40 per cent of the men in the front line "are Negroes, it is impossible, at this time, to ascertain his sources. Yesterday, the Defense Department said that the most recent survey (Dec. 25, 1965) showed the following percentages of Negroes in the Armed Forces in Vietnam; 14.8 per cent in the Army, 5.1 per cent Navy, 8.9 per cent Marine Corps, 8.3 Air Force. These figures, however, do not reflect the percentages of Negroes "on the front lines...