Word: hamilton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yeah," commented the other student impassively. "I hope someone asks him about this 'revolution thing,'" he added, nervously fingering his copy of Black Power: The Politics of Liberation by Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton...
...head of the conference table, Charles V. Hamilton looked over his notes from an earlier meeting. Lighting his pipe and leaning back in his chair, Hamilton began speaking to the study group. His voice was characteristically calm and deliberate as it sliced through the tension of the room...
Stokely's "black power" was in everyone's ears, and it maintained a radical ring for most--except perhaps for the few who took the time to read the book he co-authored with Charles V. Hamilton entitled Black Power. Stokely's vision as outlined in the book, is decidedly not a very radical one. Carmichael seems to see the black people of this country as being little different from traditional ethnic, immigrant groups. Thus, he would have the black people of America act as a disciplined interest group, to extract demands from the pluralistic society. This accomplished, he believes...
...first collective action against the war was a demonstration held last May in Harvard Yard, Hamilton said. Approximately 300 black students from the New England area filled the Yard, marching under the slogan "We'll fight in Mississippi, but not in Vietnam...
Conrad J. Lynn, one of the official SNCC attorneys and a counselor for draft resistance in Harlem, voiced similar feelings Friday, speaking at Harvard on "Vietnam and the Black Man." Hamilton called the proposed strike "the first real concerted effort of black students across the country to voice their opposition...