Word: nationalisme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many young Negroes in the civil rights movement are frustrated with Martin Luther King's patience and Roy Wilkin's caution, and nationalism is not necessarily the reason for similar feelings among Negroes at Harvard. But nationalism is certainly evident in such statements as "The blacks have to be able...
White students have occasionally indicated interest in attending AAAAS meetings. A standard response is that the personal and particular difficulties of Negroes are under discussion and that whites would be in the way. To most members this seems a reasonable answer--and perhaps it is. But it does reveal the...
Like the white undergraduates who argue on the basis of their own feelings, Harvard Negroes have embraced nationalism not because they think it is necessarily right, not because they think it is good policy, but because it is emotionally satisfying. "When Malcolm X cusses out white people you feel relieved...
Whether or not nationalism is good policy is another question. According to Epps, who served this summer as special assistant to Thomas Atkins, executive secretary of the Boston branch of NAACP, nationalism is "a luxury" Negroes cannot afford. He stressed the importance of strategy, of using what volunteers one had...
"I flirted with nationalism last year," he said, "with the founding of AAAAS, but I've become disenchanted, because nationalists--like King and other Christian leaders who direct the attention of Negroes to heaven--direct the energy and attention of Negroes of Africa, separate states, and exclusively Negro organizations, which...