Word: malcolms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another sign of the mushrooming self-consciousness of the poor is the sprouting of a Black Power movement in New York. Shortly before he was assassinated, Malcolm X, the organizer of New York's black nationalists, wrote that...
...accept the contradictions because he knows the movement is young. "I tell you black will win out," he said. "It's in the recesses of black people, in their guts, souls, hearts." He is also sure that he and other black radicals are carrying on the work of Malcolm...
...Paul Washington, a Negro Episcopalian, talked about Malcolm at one of Palmer's rallies. "He performed a kind of miracle as he spoke," Washington said. "When he spoke of the black man, instead of my being humiliated, I actually felt proud. I felt like I was somebody rather than nobody...
Washington is not only a prominent clergyman, but also a member of the city's Commission on Human Relations and a trustee of its Community College -- the kind of leader Dr. King's former aide praised before the Urban League. Yet here he was admitting that it took Malcolm X and black radicalism to make him feel like somebody...
Last week, after a chat with Jewish War Veterans Commander Malcolm Tarlov, Johnson even found himself in a brief brouhaha with the nation's Jews, over 80% of whom supported him in 1964. During the talk, the President expressed regret at what he felt was a lack of support for his Viet Nam policy among Jewish leaders. As reported in the press, it sounded as if he were criticizing the whole Jewish community and, worse still, threatening to link U.S. aid to Israel with Jewish support on Viet Nam on a quid pro quo basis. The tempest subsided only...