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Though the meeting was CORE's, the keynote speaker (maneuvered into place by CORE members who are even more militant than McKissick) was Stokely Carmichael, 25, the head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ("SNICK") and the loudest articulator of the black-power philosophy. Dropping his jacket and loosening his tie to "be like my people," Carmichael launched an attack on just about everyone. "This is not a movement being run by Lyndon Johnson!" he cried. "This is not a movement being run by the liberal white establishment or by Uncle Toms. What you have been doing...
...Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. At 23, he became its national chairman and one of the most aggressive Negro leaders in the civil rights movement. With the movement's radical elements in the ascendant, Alabama-born Lewis, a mature 26, was replaced as chairman in May by Harlem-reared Stokely Carmichael, 24, who has made "black power!" the rallying cry for the newest form of racism (TIME, July 1). Last week Lewis announced his resignation from S.N.C.C...
Lewis' disaffection is plainly a result of S.N.C.C.'s new militancy. He has refused to parrot the black-power line, explaining: "I'm not prepared to give up my personal commitment to nonviolence." He argues that the Mississippi march, which Carmichael tried to dominate, may have done the civil rights cause more harm than good...
...seat in the Georgia legislature because of his admiration of draft-card burners, acknowledges he is "looking for a good job." He has not been paid his $85-a-week salary for two months. Other "older" S.N.C.C. officials may follow. Trusty financial contributors are slipping away, repelled by Carmichael's brand of racism. The organization no longer has a friendly working relationship with Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which is opposed to Carmichael's philosophy and irritated by his financial fecklessness. Though S.N.C.C., King's group and the Congress of Racial Equality were...
...nonviolence espoused by Martin Luther King is in danger of crumbling. Last week James Meredith, the lone wolf whose ambush on Highway 51 persuaded other civil rights leaders to convert his solitary stroll into a mass march, declared that Negroes should at least defend themselves. SNCC's Carmichael admitted: "I have never rejected violence"-even though the word nonviolent is enshrined in the name of his organization. Says CORE's Director Floyd McKissick: "The greatest hypocrisy we have is the Statue of Liberty. We ought to break the young lady's legs and point her to Mississippi...