Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anochie summed up Armah's formulation as "anti-racist racialism." This entailed the development of inorder to realize objectives--integration for example. The concept of "Black Power" has been inarticulately expressed in the ghetto for 50 years; Armah and Anochie, however, gave it sophisticated formulation four years before Stokeley Carmichael or Floyd McKissick...
...concept "anti-racist racialism' confused and frightened a number of people, as did the words "Black Power" four years later. People were accustomed to the Negro movement depending both for sustenance and initiative upon the good will of the white community; the development of the Negro institutions and points of strength could not be communicated on their own merits. The building of such institutions has been wrongly confused, since Plessy us Ferguson, with "perpetuating segregation...
...Wiley remembers how Armah could "tease, chide, and coerce within the space of a few minutes. The experience of talking with him left many quite shaken." The question for AAAAS came to be one of "On whose terms will we be recognized?" Armah was unable to communicate the new concept to the Administration...
...Administration and not Afro defined the nature of the organization. The idea was too new, and the Negro student too perplexed, "too hung up on integration," as Williams puts it, for the concept to be really understood. Williams says that even now, four years later and after the Black Power controversy, does he really understand the new formulation...
...divided, at least informally, on whether improvement should be sought through programs--mostly directed at the education and job problems--involving the government and the white community, or through a concerted effort of development by and within the black community in the most constructive spirit of the Black Power concept...