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...National Peace Action Coalition says it has received the endorsement of groups representing labor. GI's, blacks, women, clergy, communities, and students...
Most black GI's, 58 per cent, and many black officers use the clenched fist black power sign as a form of greeting or recognition of one black by another. But a third of the white enlisted men and more than 40 per cent of the white officers in my survey condemn its use. "They shouldn't make that sign," complained Staff Sg. Bobby Edwards of Woodsboro, Texas. "That is a show of rebellion and strength." Specialist Lane Bragg of Los Angeles, a squad leader in a mortar platoon in the 82nd Airborne, recalled a white captain chastising...
...Saigon's "Soul Kitchen" black GI's greet each other over spareribs, pork chops, chittlins, grits and cornbread with more than 57 varieties of black power handshakes that may end with vowing to die for your comrade by crossing the chest Roman legion style...
There may be one color-Army or Marine Corps green-in the foxhole, but there are two worlds when the races relax. During off-duty hours 56 per cent of he black GI's seek out other blacks; on liberty and R and R trips, even more travel only with blacks. One in five blacks said he depised whites, and only 17 per cent counted whites among their best friends...
...LIBERATION News Service appeared in the fall of 1967 as what seemed to be an underground, or radical, counterpart to the AP or UPI. From its office in Washington, it sent out stories to hundreds of underground papers across the country-stories about students, blacks, dissident GI's, the War, the draft, Chicanos, drugs, astrology, and just about everything else. Ideologically independent of any single faction of the Left, the LNS served to foster the notion that there was still such a thing as The Movement, a popular misconception which led to Chicago's Yippie hysteria and the subsequent Chicago...