Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With that declaration, Carmichael -- armed with little more than a rhetoric of outrage -- began to pursue the almost mystical notion that there is a frontier of American politics solely for Negroes, and that it is SNCC's to find. Mississippi Summer Project veterans Bob Moses and John Lewis were dismissed as revisionists. The new Howard educated policy-making core -- Carmichael, Courtland Cox, Charles Cobb, Cleveland Sellers -- focused on the words "self-determinism," "nationalism," and "black power." The newly evolving SNCC image was one of hard cool. The old tactic and credo of Ghandian pacifism was termed irrelevant...
...Manhattan party, the Republican organization in the City is definitely conservative. In the words William F. Buckley Jr., former Conservative party candidate for mayor, Lindsay's nomination was "a rump affair and no more representative of the body of Republican thought in New York than the Democratic Party in Mississippi is representative of the Democratic Party nationally". The Queens leader recently received the Americanism Award of the Catholic War Veterans of Queens Country for his record of anti-Communism. He claims that the Goldwater debacle of 1964 must be blamed on Rockefeller and Javits because they did not support...
...letter to President Pusey, the students alleged that the University could and should supervise Middle South more closely--particularly one of its subsidiaries, Mississippi and Light. Harvard is the company's largest common stockholder--its holdings ($10 million then and $13.6 million now) represent 1.7 per cent of Middle South. The students argued that the University power in the company was even greater than those figures indicated -- because former Treasurer Paul C. Cabot '21 and Thomas D. Cabot '44, former member of the Board of Overseers, also owned huge blocks of Middle South stock...
According to the letter, Mississippi Power and Light engaged in "racist hiring practices" and had an "affiliation with segregationist legislators." A covering letter from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee later that May traced a complicated set of inter-relationships that they said formed the Mississippi "power base" -- Mississippi Power, the anti-integration White Citizens' Council and the state Democratic Party. SNCC claimed that these three organizations were the dominant political and social forces in the state...
...Harvard exercised its interest in the power company, said SNCC and the students, the University could speed the drive to state-wide integration. "Mississippi is a profitable business enterprise," they challenged; "we wonder whether education is only incidental to the Board of Trustees. "In effect the issue was whether a corporation could separate itself from its product--in the University's case a liberally-educated...