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...Floyd McKissick, the new national director of CORE, stretched out on the bed in his room in Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel one evening last week and languidly shut his eyes-as if bored beyond all tolerance with the two white men earnestly pleading before...
Against these hopeful and largely middle-class aspirations for the law lies the glowering distrust of almost all Negroes of the poor and angry lower levels. Everyone should have known, says CORE Chairman Floyd B. McKissick, that Congress could not "by one or two measly acts relieve 200 years of injustice." A Southern Negro woman who moved to Los Angeles' Watts district scoffs: "I always been votin' since I got here. But what has it got me?" Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin interprets the Watts riots as signifying "a society where a Negro can show...
Summing up, CORE Chairman Floyd B. McKissick of North Carolina says: "Generally we get what we demand. The barrier falls when we push it. But the thing is, we have to push...
...exactly where Binaggio's body was found (facing the big portrait of Native Son Truman), and where Gargotta lay, a few steps away. This had a quieting effect on the enthusiasm of present and prospective members of the club. Last week Binaggio's successor, Boss Henry McKissick, took down the pictures of Harry S. Truman and Missouri Governor Forrest Smith, and moved out. He announced that the club was looking for more suitable quarters...
When J. (for James) Rion McKissick graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1905, he was voted not only the biggest eater and best writer but the most accomplished orator in his class. Last week South Carolina's Governor Olin D. Johnston and a deputation of State officials gathered in the University's field house to inaugurate Alumnus McKissick, who had worked up from the editorship of the Greenville Piedmont through the deanship of the University's school of journalism, as the University's 19th president. Big, baldish Orator McKissick lived up to his undergraduate...