Word: separatists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert F. Bales. professor of Social Relations, has lent his support to the separatist movement. "It is desirable for social psychology to achieve independent status," Bales said yesterday...
...also be argued that until white attitudes change, blacks must turn inward, control their own educational destiny, create the kind of power that commands respect and will enable them to meet whites on more equal ground. Black separatists are indeed taking that route (see box, page 14), although the vast majority of blacks prefer to join whites now in those better white schools. The separatist path also has its illusions. Money still matters in education, and it still seems to follow whitey. In the long run, polarization may prove more destructive to race relations than the current incidence of friction...
Issue and motive must be separated, however. Militant separatist blacks may have abandoned integration-just as hostile whites continue to attack it. But more moderate black leaders, while admitting that integration is not a panacea, are still convinced that it is a vital goal. Hence, they are appalled by what they see in national mood and purpose behind the new assault on it. They speak in rage and despair. "What we are up against," John Morsell wrote fellow N.A.A.C.P. staffers, "is a concerted attempt by segregationists, black and white, North and South, with the blessing of the President, to turn...
...congregations who may resent their loss of independence.) Above the parishes will rise a hierarchical pyramid: districts, regions (both presided over by bishops) and finally a powerful national church government: a biennial national assembly and a standing general council headed by a presiding bishop. Partly to appease the growing separatist feeling in the three black churches participating in the Consultation, the plan requires that the first presiding bishop be black...
With the present separatist mood of blacks on campus, reflected in the political split with such organizations as SDS as well as the pullback from news outlets, neither whites nor blacks hold out hope for an aggressive recruitment campaign among blacks...