Word: carmichaels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first officers were elected in the spring of '63. An African student, Martin Anochie '64, was elected president. Anochie was a very persuasive spokesman and, as Travis Williams put it, "a brilliant politician. He anticipated Skokely Carmichael and even, to some extent, Malcolm...
...anti-racist racialism." This entailed the development of institutions and points of strength in order to realize objectives--integration for example. The concept of "Black Power" has been inarticulately expressed in the ghetto for 50 years; Armah and Anochie, however, gave it sophisticated formulation four years before Stokeley Carmichael or Floyd McKissick...
...likely, or at least not very soon. On campuses from Harvard to Berkeley, a "We Won't Go!" movement is spreading swiftly. In the past three months, no fewer than 16 members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee have refused induction, echoing Stokely Carmichael's complaint that the draft is "calculated genocide" aimed at exterminating Negroes. Across the nation, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King is trying to mobilize 10,000 volunteers for his "Viet Nam Summer," aimed at "organizing and educating against the war." When the President was asked during his first major press conference in nearly...
While few in the overflow audience of 1,400 seemed to be Wallace partisans, most wanted to give him a hearing out of curiosity, courtesy or both. To the cries of "Throw him out!" one student yelled back: "We listened to Stokely Carmichael, so why don't you listen to Wallace?" (When the Negro militant appeared at the school last fall, he was subjected to a few boos.) When Wallace did manage to be heard, it was to correct "misunderstandings" about his state, to deny being a racist, and to denounce Americans who aid the Viet Cong by donating...
...Services Committee hearings on the draft is a sobering fact: by the time Congress is ready to present the President with a new Selective Service Act, there will be little left resembling the Marshall Commission's laudable recommendations for draft reform. All of the committee members' raging against Stokely Carmichael and all of their prattle about the First Amendment should not obscure the slow erosion of what once seemed a genuine attempt to improve the draft...