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...Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee gathering in May, 1966, newly elected chairman Stokely Carmichael announced...
...campaign ribbons and decorations, who participated. TIME neglected to mention the many groups of professional people who marched; teachers and medical groups were well represented. My impression of the crowd was one of middle-class respectability. The turned-on, tuned-in, dropped-out set was a minority. Yes, Stokely Carmichael shot off his mouth, but he was more than counterbalanced by the reasoned arguments of the other speakers. Yes, there were some radicals and fanatics and Viet Cong flags. They were more than counterbalanced by the overwhelming majority of participants: everyday people who believe that patriotism demands more than unquestioning...
...Broadway-influenced drama department is "more practical" than Northwestern's. Judy Johnson, a bright, outspoken Richmond, Calif., girl, has been accepted by Stanford. She is deeply concerned with civil rights activities and has highly independent opinions (the Rev. Martin Luther King is "too religious" and Stokely Carmichael is "self-defeating"). Judy is disappointed that the colleges are apparently more interested in her color than her talent. She complains: "It's defeating to find out that after all your years of striving and attempting to excel in school, that it comes down to the issue of your race again...
...Rose refused to lend his name to a protest sponsored by Governor Lurleen Wallace condemning a federal court order that Alabama desegregate all its public schools. But what really fired up the legislators was a student publication called Emphasis '67-Revolutions that included articles by Negro Militant Stokely Carmichael on 'Power and Racism," and by Communist Bettina Aptheker on the U.S. in Viet Nam. The pamphlet provided background for a student-sponsored symposium last month on world problems at which Dean Rusk was a main speaker...
Rose pointed out that the views of Bettina Aptheker had been rebutted in Emphasis by an article by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Earle Wheeler, and that Carmichael's black-power views were balanced by those of N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Roy Wilkins. Students marched to Rose's house to show their support...