Word: carmichaels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...privilege he should have had all the time. It is one he should use regardless." In Dallas County many Negroes are bent on ousting racist Sheriff Jim Clark and support his rival, Selma's relatively moderate Public Safety Director Wilson Baker. - The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee under Stokely Carmichael has mounted a door-to-door campaign to keep Negroes away from the primary polls, even if it means the defeat of Negro candidates or sympathetic whites. Carmichael argues that the Negro has no hope of power within either major party as they are now constituted and so must exert...