Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have sounded responsible to Whitey-and they couldn't have cared less. The Student Nonviolent Coordinat ing Committee's H. Rap Brown urged Negroes to "wage guerrilla war on the honkie white man," added: "I love violence." Los Angeles Black Nationalist Ron Karenga remarked at the opening session: "Everybody knows Whitey's a devil. The question is what to do about it." Notably absent were the N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins, the National Urban League's Whitney Young Jr., and Martin Luther King Jr. Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell, honorary co-chairman of the conference...
When the full report was released, many Negro leaders and white liberals were primed to pounce on it as an attack on the Negro family itself. Among other things, Moynihan was called a racist and accused of having given encouragement to segregationists. By the time a White House planning session on Negro problems convened in November, both Moynihan and his report were anathema. "There is a certain kind of decent liberal mind," he reflected later, "which feels any criticism of liberal programs is illiberal, because everything is so precarious that any criticism is just going to give the enemy ammunition...
SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). The tragic never-never world of young addicts is explored during a group therapy session at Staten Island's Daytop Village in "Marathon: The Young Drug Users...
...first time since Westmoreland was dispatched to Viet Nam more than three years ago that he has come anywhere near public disagreement with his civilian bosses. Concerned, the President called him to the White House for a harmony session. With McNamara present, he assured Westmoreland of his continued esteem and told him he would send as many troops as was feasible...
...School's summer session will include 200-300 students, ranging in age from six to ripe adulthood; each will pay a nominal fee. At the moment the school has no home and, said Miss Lewis, "we will work in the streets if necessary...