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...peaceful development of black peoples, and an avoidance of catastrophic race war. If only the whites, "the deaf and dumb masters of the world," could recognize that such cooperation with blacks on the bases of equality is in their own interests . . . This heritage can still be seen in the NAACP of which he was a founder-member. He may have been wrong in this belief in inter-racial cooperation, proved wrong, it would seem, by American society itself. But even in disillusionment, with the obdurate persistence and provocative idiocy of racism in America, DuBois never turned to "black nationalism...
...world and time, all Johnson could see were follow blacks only wishing to emulate Whitely in their own modest fashion. DuBois NAACP was then a fledgling organization, unable to effect any vigorous social change: and Marcus Garvey, whose separatist Universal Negro Improvement Association Johnson later preached for, had not yet landed on U. S. shores...
...National Peace Action Coalition, the organizor of the convention, is an "umbrella" for 60 groups-including the NAACP, SANE, Student Mobilization Committee (SMC), and Women's Strike for Peace. The convention will plan massive demonstrations demanding immediate U. S. withdrawal from Southeast Asia...
...label called KKK, showing a fiery cross on a scarlet background, featured the 100 per cent Americans playing Why I am a Klansman. Today a comparable mood can be observed in Reb Rebel records whose anti-black jokes on NAACP Flight 105 reportedly sold over a million copies in the southeast...
...Cassius Clay, 69 per cent. Edward Brooke, the only black U.S. Senator, draws the approval of less than half; black sailors refer to him as an "Oreo"-a cookie, black on the outside, white on the inside. Another moderate, Roy Wilkins, received only 53 per cent backing. The NAACP leader, highly popular with Whitney Young among the black soldiers of 1967, is roundly criticized today for condemning the black studies movement. "I dig the militant brothers," said Jessup. "Nonviolence didn't do anything but get Martin Luther King killed." Young drew the support of 51 per cent...