Word: malcolm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trouble was, reporters had already been given advance texts of the speech, and were starting to write their stories when White House Press Aide Malcolm Kilduff, traveling on the newsmen's plane, ordered that no mention of the deleted paragraphs should be made. Intimating that the objectionable sections had been put in by White House speech-writers unbeknownst to Lyndon, Kilduff ordered: "No reference-repeat, no reference-will be made to that part which has been deleted...
...over--often more than with the integration of Mississippi's public schools or the success of a rent strike in Chicago. Few advocate physical separation from white society, as do the Black Muslims, but few find the idea totally ridiculous. And many will tell you that the former Muslim, Malcolm X, is "a fine, brilliant...
None of these actions is specifically nationalistic, and most Harvard Negroes find it hard to follow through completely, to reject acceptance by whites. As one student observed "to go along with Malcolm is to give up your dreams of getting into the mainstream of American life." But though few embrace black nationalism as a doctrine, many accept it as a useful concept, an intellectual focus for their feelings...
Like the white undergraduates who argue on the basis of their own feelings, Harvard Negroes have embraced nationalism not because they think it is necessarily right, not because they think it is good policy, but because it is emotionally satisfying. "When Malcolm X cusses out white people you feel relieved. You can identify with...
...become disenchanted, because nationalists--like King and other Christian leaders who direct the attention of Negroes to heaven--direct the energy and attention of Negroes to Africa, separate states, and exclusively Negro organizations, which by their very nature cannot come to grips with the society in which they exist. Malcolm, like Muhammed, is likely to attract followers who, like the Black Muslims, will remain in their temples while other Negroes face police dogs and jail cells. . . . You cannot work institutional change while being a nationalist...