Word: malcolms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campus organization now known as the Association of African and Afro-American Students (AAAS) is a product of the uniquely stimulating years from 1960 to 1963. The student demonstrations in the South, African independence, and the Black Muslims -- especially Malcolm X -- captured the imagination of Negroes in intellectual communities throughout the country...
...first officers were elected in the spring of '63. An African student, Martin Anochie '64, was elected president. Anochie was a very persuasive spokesman and, as Travis Williams put it, "a brilliant politician. He anticipated Skokely Carmichael and even, to some extent, Malcolm...
...number of Muslims frequented the Square--Brother Roy and Brother Willie (seniors may remember futile arguments with Willie as he sold them innumerable copies of Muhammad Speaks). Malcolm X also came to the Square several times during those years, but at that time most black students were afraid to go hear him. Travis Williams '63 admits, "though we revere him now that he's dead, most of us fled his naked language." Assistant Dean Archie Epps remembers being a "fat old satisfied guy" shocked out of his torpor by Malcolm's homely iconoclasm...
James Purdy has achieved a considerable literary reputation for his precisely chiseled prose style and gallows humor (Malcolm, The Nephew, 63: Dream Palace). His talent does not flag here, despite his choice of subject. But Eustace Chisholm is not unlike certain surrealistic paintings in its rather surprising lack of effect: though an atmosphere is evoked in sharp and crystalline terms and though figures are intensely and skillfully rendered, the reader remains unmoved. Fortunately, most men do not live in a neo-Gothic neverland where the entire range of human experience is dominated by a single obsession. Life is at once...
Jimmy Cannon wrote in the New York World Journal Tribune: "He (Clay) desires martyrdom. But what religion has thugs to do its missionary work with kicks? There were Black Muslims in the mob of assassins that killed Malcolm X. The karate is an expression of their piety in street rumbles. It is Clay's cop-out that he is a minister of this furious sect...