Word: separatist
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...Power" was chanted on a Negro march through Mississippi in 1966, it came to signify a new spirit of defiance at one edge of the campaign for civil rights. Among whites and moderate Negro leaders alike, the concept inspired fears of a procession of hot summers, a raging Negro separatist movement-and perhaps in the end a costly showdown between black and white that might send U.S. race relations all the way back to the post-Reconstruction period. The new movement quickly developed its list of fanatical leaders: Stokeley Carmichael, H. Rap Brown, Ron Karenga and, in his special...
...Gaulle wants to increase French influence among Arab nations disillusioned with Russia and disgusted with the U.S. But it is difficult to see any rational basis for De Gaulle's crude intrusion into the delicate domestic affairs of Canada. When the old man shouted a rabble-rousing French separatist slogan at a Quebec crowd last week, he was merely being a troublemaker-and a clumsy one at that...
Barking at the Sun. In Szechwan, there were no gains to lose. Large, populous (80 million) and strongly separatist, Szechwan represents a challenge to Mao's central authority and to the validity of the Cultural Revolution. Its political and military boss since 1952 has been tough Politburo Member Li Ching-chuan, 59, who earlier tacitly aided the anti-Maoists and was linked with Red Army Marshal Ho Lung, a onetime warlord and bandit, in a purported plot to depose Mao last February...
...last week and, with a lusty cheer, sent two homemade rockets sizzling into the sky. While police unsuccessfully pursued them, their rockets exploded into a shower of paper flags, each bearing the red field and two green crosses of Euzkadi, the homeland of the Basques. Spain's Basque Separatists are once more up to their old habits of derring-do. In recent weeks they have also planted their outlawed flag on a mountaintop in upper Navarra, ingeniously substituted it for the Spanish flag at a civil ceremony in San Sebastián. Police throughout northern Spain, more over...
According to his historical essay, "A Negro Separatist Movement," Archie Epps would disagree with Gordon's criterion that is independent of larger society. Epps points out that even a radical American Negro group like the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) had to work through society. For Epps argues that there is an "intricate network of connections which bind Negro culture and history to the larger society and visa versa." The AME had to draw upon Christian egalitarian ideas of the larger society to justify their positions. In parallel fashion, developing countries would face many problems breaking connections with industrialized powers...