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...past, villagers had to sail up a Viet Cong-controlled river to reach their market-and pay plenty of fish in tribute along the way. The Phuoc Trach Marines have even taught their Vietnamese friends how to dance to rock 'n' roll. Says Lance Corporal Leroy Lomax, a 20-year-old Negro from California: "They go, man, they...
...rallies in New York, Washington and Saigon. Though the ladies and the preachers were traveling without clearance from the State Department, a total of 57 Americans-47 of them newsmen-have validated passports to visit the North. So far, Hanoi has agreed to admit only two-Salisbury and Louis Lomax, a Negro TV commentator for KTTV in Los Angeles who was en route to Hanoi last week after stopping in at the State Department for a briefing...
...platitudinous monologue written by Allan Lomax marred Saturday night's concert. The script eulogized America's "wide prairies" and "tumble-down churches" and was intended to unify the program. Unfortunately, it only succeeded in flattening an evening that included such highly original talents as Joseph Spence, Ed Young and the Southern Fife And Drum Corps, Yomo Toro, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band with Billie and Dede Pierce, and the Lovin' Spoonful. The eagerly anticipated Chuck Berry failed to appear...
...rejecting what rejects us. If you still do not understand what the riots said, I will tell you. They said, "No, we do not love you"; they said, "Go to hell and take your slums with you." Is it possible that you still don't dig? ALMENA LOMAX Editor-Publisher Tribune Los Angeles
...fact, the rioters' resentment was aimed at the successful, assimilated Negro as well as the white man. "The time is coming," said Negro Author Louis Lomax, "when some of us who look like middle-class success symbols will have to march to Watts in all humility, and we're going to have to show these people that we are just as willing to die right here in Los Angeles to help this man reidentify as we are willing to die in Selma." To illustrate the gulf that existed between the Negro "haves" and "have-nots," Negro State Assemblyman...