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Died. Oliver Cromwell Carmichael, 74, president of the University of Alabama from 1953 to 1957; of leukemia; in Asheville, N.C. A distinguished educator, Carmichael was no match for the segregationists when, in 1956, Autherine Lucy, a Negro, tried to enroll in all-white 'Bama; he tried to obey the federal court order to admit her, but was forced by student riots and an adamant aboard of trustees to expel her, after which he resigned, became a consultant to the Ford Foundation...
...here, too, one encounters ambivalence. Mothers for Adequate Welfare (MAW) is a group of Roxbury mothers on welfare. A Mrs. Bland, staff worker for MAW, said that members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), many of them white college students (described by Carmichael as the "kids who go to Europe one summer and to Alabama the next"), were the ones who got MAW started. "I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world," she said. "We don't care whether you're blue, purple, or brown with yellow polka dots, we want you to work with...
...community indeed seems split. Carl F. Senna, at the Roxbury Community Council, said, for example, that a lot of people don't agree with Carmichael's solution because "Roxbury is integrated--about 65 per cent Negro and 35 per cent white." There is a division, he said, between the Negroes who have lived in Roxbury for about 40 years and who are well established, and those who have just moved into Roxbury during the last decade. The newcomers, according to Senna, are more likely to identify with "Black Power" and groups that exclude whites; the older inhabitants tend...
...themselves by coming out of the ghettos during the summers to take classes at the Urban School's evening study program. This is a controversial move, because many of the more radical leaders feel that students should receive their education in their own neighborhood and from their own people. Carmichael, when he came to lecture at Harvard, said that the brightest Negro students were "selling out" to offers from big name schools and Universities like Harvard when they should be helping to uphold the standards in the Negro schools. What happens only too often, Carmichael believes, is that these bright...
...Carmichael would be the last to approve of their plans. From what he said on his speaking tour of Boston, REP would represent for him the epitome of what Roxbury needs least: a bunch of white college students projecting the wrong image on young Negro students...