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...something resembling this revolutionary mystique that Stokely Carmichael and a few others are trying to impose on the Amerian Negro movement. Mixed with the anarchical slogans of "Burn, baby, burn!" and "Tear down the courthouses," there is a calculated conviction that violence is above all else a language, and that this language, through fear, will persuade white society to give things to the Negro that it would not otherwise give. Says Lester Mc-Kinney, Washington head of S.N.C.C.: "In the minds of the people, history has proved that any meaningful social change has come through a bloody revolution." Many Negro...
...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...
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...