Word: movement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JAMES FARMER bills himself as "the first black man in history to lose to a black woman for Congress." The man who founded CORE 26 years ago is more than that. His biography would practically write the story of the civil rights movement. His loss to Mrs. Shirley Chisholm in New York's Bedford-Stuyvesant district came at the will of the Democratic machine which has a stranglehold on the ghetto. The election does not detract from his prestige and left no personal bitterness--only a few campaign anecdotes and a contempt for machine politics...
...Negro's civil rights. He began to read Gandhi. Distressed by the lack of progress in integration, he and his friends decided to form a nonviolent organization that would preach civil disobedience. That was the beginning of CORE and also the beginning of the sit-ins. "The Movement really began in the early 'forties. Up until that time, all blacks participated in segregation at least passively. It was important that we should not lend ourselves to the evil we condemned...
...when the civil rights movement went North, we lost a lot of our liberal friends. The money stopped coming in to the Movement. Stopped? Well, I should say, was greatly curtailed. Another cut in our funds came in 1964 after the civil rights bill had been passed. At that point, many people said 'Hallelujah! The ball game's over. The black man is equal. He can buy a hot dog at a lunch counter...
...military; to justify the right to be so trained necessitates condoning the activities in which the U.S. military engages--in effect, one would have to support the right of conquest, the right of a foreign government to exploit a people and to suppress the Black liberation movement at home. There is no such right, any more than there is a right for Murder, Inc. to train and recruit instruments of death...
...will give SFAC real power. Rather, they will use their committees to take up a lot of time and eventually try to buy us off. The only way we can get ROTC off campus is by mobilizing the student body to fight for its abolition. We must build a movement that fights for the only just demand--after all it makes little difference to the Vietnamese peasnts, or to the Black people in U.S. ghettos, whether or not ROTC graduates got course credit for their training. It is ROTC's function, not its academic status, that is rotten...