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...Stokely Carmichael has had more effect on the news of this past year than any other individual. You have not appreciated his greatness. I trust that you will realize his importance by naming him Man of the Year...
Negroes, because they have made less economic and social progress than other minorities, still tend to bloc voting in the classic pattern. But even among Negroes, the racial lines did not always hold, and Stokely Carmichael's retrograde, black-power appeal clearly upset nearly as many Negroes as whites. In Baltimore, 83% of the Negro vote went to Republican (and "ethnic" Greek) Spiro Agnew for Governor-though only two years ago it had gone equally heavily along its traditional Democratic lines for Lyndon Johnson. And though Edward Brooke drew the small Negro vote in his race for Massachusetts Senator...
...Texas, three Negroes became the first members of their race in 71 years to win election to the state legislature; Georgia re-elected all ten of its Negro legislators. In Alabama's Lowndes County, black voters?who outnumber whites 55% to 45%?were less than enthusiastic about Stokely Carmichael's aggressive Black Panther ticket, which went down to defeat. Elsewhere in the state, several Negroes were elected, notably Macon County's Lucius Amerson, 32, a Korean War paratrooper and former postal clerk who became the South's only Negro sheriff. In Dallas County, Selma's public-safety director, Wilson...
Barbara Ackerman and Gustave Solomons, who voted with Duehay to allow the Carmichael speech at Rindge, vigorously supported Duehay's amendment. Both stated last night that the new policy "does not clarify at all" the Committee's position on controversial Speakers...
Duehay said that all requests should be approved "as long as there is no danger of riot or undue commotion." George F. Oleson, one of the majority that kept Carmichael out of Rindge, agreed that fear for public safety was the only legiti- tonishly eager to hear and talk with the students, became increasingly annoyed as each word of his was drowned out by boos and jeers...