Word: naacp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article was a blow to the Howard initiative, but not yet a deadly one. Roy Wilkins wrote to say he had not known the NAACP was reprinting it: "My opinion of the Ryan piece and of similiar reasoning is well known to my immediate associate here....It is a silly and sinister distortion to classify as racist this inevitable discussion of a recognized phase of our so-called race problem." Wilkins's attitude was shared by other Negro leaders. During the summer, Whitney Young, Jr. several times noted, properly, that he had for years been writing about just such questions...
Aaron Henry, a state NAACP leader, and Marion Wright, one of the six Negro lawyers in Mississippi, have both spoken at the Law School this year. A few years ago, they never would have been invited. In contrast, Medford Evans, a long-time representative of the White Citizen's Council, spoke at the Law School this fall, but his reception was substantially less favorable than in the past. Evans was pressed, as Don Allen recounts it, and inconsistencies in his views were sharply attacked...
...think we have mass appeal, especially in our identification with African things. But, let's face it, Roy Wilkins (head of the NAACP) has mass appeal, too. Sure, it's easier to go to Hollywood than to a dirty place on Ridge avenue. We're unglamorous. He's building values which the system has built...
...indicative of the struggle going in within the "movement" is grossly inadequate. There are groups which have reached compromises between the two extremes which can't be wedged into either category. If Carmcihael's own organization, SNCC, is representative of the extreme left in the civil rights spectrum and NAACP at the extreme right, there are other groups which have reached a middle ground solution to the problem of whites working in Roxbury...
...historical perspective, Epps discerns two main Negro movements in the U.S.: the traditionally radical branch and the conservative faction. The radicals started with the DuBois Clubs and moved to NAACP and its sub-groups which are supported by the Negro intellectuals and leaders, while the Conservatives centered around the Urban League and the National Negro Business League. The Conservatives, Epps says, are the descendants of Booker T. Washington and feel that they must prove themselves worthy before they can enter white society...