Word: palmer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suspicion of white men and their programs has always been there, Palmer says; he is only voicing it. He says that when he was younger, he did more than suspect white men. He hated them...
Unless Negroes understand their own history, and actively affirm their own race and their black nationality, they will always be trying unconsciously to deny it, Palmer believes. They will never lose, he says, a sense of shame in being black, a feeling of inferiority...
...small number of teachers work there, including a few mothers from the neighborhood and some teenagers. Palmer is happy with the growth of the library, but admits that it isn't yet attracting Negroes in large numbers...
...what are the values that Palmer is trying to build in? What are the sources of black pride? In large part, it turns out, black pride begins with hostility to what is white. "Look what we've got--jazz, spirituals, the blues," he said. "Name me one original thing that's come from white Protestant culture here, something that doesn't derive from Europe...
...Palmer adds to his formula for black pride a series of don'ts." He reeled some of them off to a cheering audience in a North Philadelphia church...