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...Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement's most eloquent apostle of nonviolence, and Floyd McKissick, an impassioned advocate of "Black power," linked arms last week at a Chicago rally to preach comity within the Negro movement. Both leaders agreed that the Negro could best achieve his social and economic goals by peaceable means. "Our power," declared King, "does not reside in Molotov cocktails, rifles, knives and bricks." And yet, as in Harlem in 1964 and in Watts last year, the hatred and frustration of the Negro slum dweller erupted in an insensate wave of violence that filled Chicago...
Though the meeting was CORE's, the keynote speaker (maneuvered into place by CORE members who are even more militant than McKissick) was Stokely Carmichael, 25, the head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ("SNICK") and the loudest articulator of the black-power philosophy. Dropping his jacket and loosening his tie to "be like my people," Carmichael launched an attack on just about everyone. "This is not a movement being run by Lyndon Johnson!" he cried. "This is not a movement being run by the liberal white establishment or by Uncle Toms. What you have been doing...
...leaders of the militants, they clearly saw the crisis as an opportunity to try to seize the leadership of the movement from the moderates. Said Floyd McKissick, the leader of CORE: "The civil rights movement in 1966 has reached the moment of truth, and Negro leaders are not telling it to you like...
...civil rights leaders to convert his solitary stroll into a mass march, declared that Negroes should at least defend themselves. SNCC's Carmichael admitted: "I have never rejected violence"-even though the word nonviolent is enshrined in the name of his organization. Says CORE's Director Floyd McKissick: "The greatest hypocrisy we have is the Statue of Liberty. We ought to break the young lady's legs and point her to Mississippi...
...describe Floyd McKissick, national director of CORE, as "winner in a covert internal coup that ousted longtime CORE Leader James Farmer" [June 10]. There was no coup, covert or overt, internal or external. There was no "ousting." My resignation was of my own volition. I made that decision in order to launch a literacy campaign under auspices of the Center for Community Action Education to supplement the fight waged by the civil rights movement, lest, when equal opportunity is won, we find that many are unable to enjoy their new freedom. At my request CORE set up a committee...