Word: carmichaels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fulfilled, the dreary pace by which he achieves equality." This bill has served only to arouse more deeply such frustrations and rage, for it does not relate to the basic issues--unemployment, poor housing, and shamefully inadequate education. The bill merely uses a few militants, such as Stokely Carmichael, as scapegoats...
Ivan Allen, mayor of Atlanta, told an audience at the Harvard Business School last night that Stokely Carmichael is jeopardizing the Civil Rights movement in the South...
...There is greater antagonism between the races today than at any time during the great Civil Rights crusade," the mayor said. Many southerners who had embraced moderate groups like Martin Luther Kings Southern Christian Leadership Conference, he explained, were turned off by the "revolutionaries" like Carmichael who operated "outside the pale...
...first night's unrest started with a scuffle in front of a Dixie Hills supermarket between a Negro security guard and a Negro youth with a can of beer; the second night's with the arrest of Black Power Leader Stokely Carmichael, 26, and four companions, for disregarding police orders to leave the area. Undaunted, Carmichael returned the next night to demonstrate his peculiar flair for inflammable oratory...
Raising his audience to the sought-for pitch, Carmichael claimed that the police had everybody marked and were ready to shoot. He asked his listeners not to clap for applause because that would only let off steam. "That's our trouble," he said. "We've been letting off steam when we should have slapped some heads." Rocks and bottles were soon whizzing through the air, windows of police squad cars were shattered, and eight persons were arrested. Carmichael, by this time, was dancing the boogaloo at a downtown nightclub...