Word: core
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Though the meeting was CORE's, the keynote speaker (maneuvered into place by CORE members who are even more militant than McKissick) was Stokely Carmichael, 25, the head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ("SNICK") and the loudest articulator of the black-power philosophy. Dropping his jacket and loosening his tie to "be like my people," Carmichael launched an attack on just about everyone. "This is not a movement being run by Lyndon Johnson!" he cried. "This is not a movement being run by the liberal white establishment or by Uncle Toms. What you have been doing...
...deep division in national meetings of its two biggest organizations. In Los Angeles, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the largest, the oldest and the strongest civil rights group, met to renew its dedication to moderation and responsibility. In Baltimore gathered the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the biggest among a new grouping of black-power organizations that equate moderation with stagnation and demand far more militancy. In the wide gulf between them lurked the threat that the movement may be violently wrenched apart...
...leaders of the militants, they clearly saw the crisis as an opportunity to try to seize the leadership of the movement from the moderates. Said Floyd McKissick, the leader of CORE: "The civil rights movement in 1966 has reached the moment of truth, and Negro leaders are not telling it to you like...
...Stop Messing with Me." Suspecting that CORE would take the black-power route at its convention, the Big Three of moderate civil rights organizations-the N.A.A.C.P., the National Urban League and King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference-boycotted the sessions. Their fears were confirmed. For the first time in CORE's history, the Black Muslims and other extreme Ne gro nationalists were not only permitted to share the platform but were favorably mentioned by the convention's leaders. The hall rang with chants of "Black power! Black power! Black power!" Said one shocked Roman Catholic...
...resolution dismissing integration as a "failure" and urging that "black power replace assimilation and moral suasion as the dominant philosophy, theme and method of the movement"-in other words, that Negroes isolate themselves and seize power wherever they can. In a confidential memorandum distributed only to selected delegates, CORE also attacked American foreign policy, particularly the war in Viet Nam: "To support a war such as this, filled with conscious racism, is to support the racism on which it feeds. To support a war such as this is to support the use of black taxpayers' money to destroy...