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...Howard University to resist "the seductive blandishments of the white liberals" and seek "audacious power-black power." Members of two of the major civil rights groups, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Congress of Racial Equality, mouth it over and over. "Integration is irrelevant," cries SNCC Chairman Stokely Carmichael, 24. "Political and economic power is what the black people have to have...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies and one of the nation's leading experts on civil rights, said last night that Martin Luther King had far more support among Negro Americans than advocates of "Black Power," such as Stokely Carmichael, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee...
...Delta, where Negroes often outnumber white residents. Governor Johnson lost some of his own cool and decided to withdraw more than half of the protecting state convoy. In Greenwood police at first refused to let the marchers pitch their tents on school property, arresting three, including S.N.C.C. Leader Stokely Carmichael, when they tried. Most militant of all civil rights leaders, Carmichael, free on bond, shouted his anger: "We want black power! Every courthouse in Mississippi ought to be burned down to get rid of the dirt." Marchers and local Negroes picked up the chant: "Black power! Black power!" Even then...
...lonely and combative course. Ousted were Chairman John Lewis, 25, and Executive Secretary James Forman, 37, both of whom welcomed white members and ventured some cooperation with less militant civil rights organizations. Elected in their place were two leaders who appear eager to drop whites from their organization: Stokely Carmichael, 24, as chairman, and Mrs. Ruby Smith Robinson, 25, executive secretary...
...Carmichael, a founder of Alabama's all-Negro "Black Panther" Party, rejects the charge-raised by one of the Rev. Martin Luther King's top aides-that an all-Negro party is a kind of "reverse racism." He says that Negroes can no more join the Democratic Party of George Wallace than Jews could join the Nazi Party of Adolf Hitler. The Southern Negro, he argues, would be dwarfed in either of the major parties, and can command the attention of whites only when he has shown his strength in his own party...