Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Good as Their Word. At the time of his death, Malcolm X had a hard-core following of no more than 100-but he was more or less admired by thousands who, deep in their hearts, were pleased by his denunciations of the white devil. "He will be avenged," said his half sister Mrs. Ella Mae Collins. "We are going to repay them for what they did to Malcolm," said Leon 4X Ameer, another turncoat Black Muslim who had a score of his own to set tle-a Christmas beating in Boston by karate-skilled bullyboys of the Fruit...
...Institute, and he is certain of how he will begin. "You have to build from the academic side out," he said last week. "I'm not against un-academic work, you understand. But if we don't persuade the scholars in the Boston area to create an academic core, we won't have a sufficiently solid base in this community...
SNCC presently has bout 250 workers In Mississippi. Most of them remained after last summer's project and will continue to work under the auspices of COFO. Likewise, CORE, which has concentrated on the state's fourth congressional district, will maintain its activities, according to James Farmer, CORE's executive director...
Farmer also said that CORE will expand into Louisiana, Northern Florida, and South Carolina and begin recruiting local Southern white and Negro college students to staff the projects...
...personalities in the Directory refflects both Viansson-Ponte's sense of humor and the nebulous character of Gaullism itself. Viansson-Ponte deliberately avoids set definitions. To be a Gaullist one must be loyal to the General or to a cause which coincides with the General's ambitions. The hard-core cadres of Gaullism belong to the elite Union pour la Nouvelle Republique (U.N.R.). Millions of women cast their ballots for the General simply because "they are used to him and are afraid of what would happen were he to disappear. But the most devoted Gaullists are the oldtimers, veteran troops...