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They might as well have stayed in Baltimore, for all their pleading. Floyd McKissick was not interested in cooperation or McKeldin's suggestion that he come to Baltimore the next day to talk with civic leaders. Baltimore has been selected as CORE'S target city for the summer of 1966, the demonstrations are in progress, and CORE is setting its own timetable and its own conditions. McKissick will talk to Baltimore leaders when he is ready. He had only one comment after they had gone. "Well, I'm surprised," he said. "You know, I really didn...
Aura of Hysteria. Winner in a covert internal coup that ousted longtime CORE Leader James Farmer last winter, McKissick, 44, has lately steered his civil rights outfit, a leader in the movement in the '60s, away from gradual integration toward aggressive Desegregation Now. Almost all white members and most Negro moderates have either resigned or been nudged out of national policymaking positions. Opposition to the war in Viet Nam has reached a hysteria, and CORE leaders have come close to damning any cooperation with whites-as McKissick did during his meeting with the two Baltimore officials...
...Sometimes the pseudoliberal can become a monkey on your back," McKissick tartly explained to Charlotte, N.C., Reporter Dwayne Walls shortly before his election. "They have only a partial commitment, and they think in terms of the great progress the Negro has made instead of thinking of the great injustice...
...discussion by twelve working groups. A dissent-proof plan, it seemed. But not quite. First, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNICK) boycotted the conference. Then the Congress of Racial Equality, grown more militant under new leaders, demanded that the conferees frame their own report. CORE National Director Floyd McKissick wanted a resolution demanding U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam, derided the conference as "rigged" by the Administration...
...night before the opening session, a compromise was reached. Resolutions and voting would be allowed within each of the twelve working groups, but the conference as a whole was still barred from formal, collective expression. Yet McKissick's Viet Nam issue left most of the participants unexcited. In only two of the twelve groups did the resolution get as far as a vote, and both times it was defeated overwhelmingly. In the group of which McKissick was a member, the participants even adopted an alternative measure urging Johnson "to continue and intensify his efforts to bring...