Word: fifteene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...message was brutally harsh: "Fifteen dollars per nigger." In these words, a newly formed National Black Economic Development Conference last month demanded that "white Christian churches and Jewish synagogues" pay $500 million in "reparations" to U.S. Negroes or face the possibility of disruption of church operations and seizure of church facilities. Last week conference speaker James Forman, one-time executive director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, disrupted a Sunday Communion service at Manhattan's Riverside Church to demand, among other things, that the church, located on the edge of Harlem, turn over 60% of its investment income...
Another committee member--Paul M. Doty, Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry--said that the group will have to work out some arrangement for investigating teacher fellows who are also graduate students, since they also fall under the jurisdiction of the Committee of Fifteen...
Freund added that he accepted this committee's chairmanship rather than a seat on the Committee of Fifteen because, when comparing the burdents, he found that it was "a much more limited assignment...
Price emphasized that he envisions the committee as having a different role from the Committee of Fifteen, which has some authority to discipline students...
...Emery tells them how they can get GM. There are ten to fifteen million sitting targets--every GM car, truck, and bus extant. Don't confuse the issue by hitting at Ford or Chrysler, you can dictate terms to them after GM is shut down. Don't hurt the people in the cars. Your fight is against machines, not men. Smash windshields, use beer can openers to dig long scratches into the sides of the monsters. Get jobs at gas stations, in garages--dump sand, valve grinding compound, detergent into the crankcases and gas tanks...