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Cabling her resignation to CORE National Director Floyd McKissick, Lillian Smith warned in one of her last public utterances: "Now we have new killers of the dream...
...CORE's position on Black Power is that black people must be able to determine for themselves the direction and pace of their progress," Floyd McKissick, National Director of CORE told a meager, Young Dems audience last night...
Black Power, McKissick continued, has come to mean many things to different people. CORE, however, defines Black Power as having six major characteristics: political power, economic power, an improved Negro self-image, development of militant leaders, enforcement of Federal laws, and creation of a black consumer block...
Voices of Virulence. Those strong words echoed a feeling held by many, if not most, Americans. The black-power spokesmen-notably the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's Stokely Carmichael and the Congress of Racial Equality's Floyd McKissick-have broken up the civil rights coalition whose strong, united stand did much to advance meaningful legislation in the past. The voices of virulence also helped fan the riots that erupted in the nation's cities this summer. Thus Congress, which had considered previous rights bills in the context of anti-Negro violence by Southern whites, this time worked...
MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 3:30-5 p.m.). A joint interview with six prominent civil rights leaders: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young, Stokely Carmichael, Floyd B. McKissick and James H. Meredith...