Word: palmer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When I am told that the 30 to 35 million blacks in America are a minority," Palmer told a rally early in the summer, "I think of our ties to 310 million Africans. Then I ask, who's the minority...
...Palmer, the only hope for the Negro is not the churches, not the organizations, and certainly not the Urban League, but that excitement --that response he gets when he talks about what it is like to be black in this country and what it should be like...
...Everything we've been taught about this system is wrong, inaccurate," Palmer says, so he and a number of others in Philadelphia have begun providing their own instruction to their community...
...Palmer (who feels the term "Negro" is degrading and uses "Afro-American" or "black" instead) did much of the planning for three "Afro-American rallies" during the summer. At the rallies, there was dancing, poetry, speeches, all equally inflammatory. The last one drew 2,000 people. It was supposed to be held in a church, but there wasn't enough room, so everyone moved out to the only place in North Philadelphia where there was enough -- the street. The rally took five hours and traffic was detoured around...
Also, in fewer numbers and less conspicuously, Palmer recruited teachers, mothers and teen-agers to do his sort of work -- day-in, day-out work in the Negro community. Palmer and other workers teach that there is a black community to which black men and women can be proud to belong. The way Palmer presents it, most of the lesson is history. He recited a typical lecture as he sat hunched over his hospital office, his chin on his hands so that they formed a parentheses for his goatee...