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CRISIS IN BLACK AND WHITE, by Charles E. Silberman. The author believes that the best, in fact the only way to achieve equality and integration is by massive, militant drives in housing, schools and jobs. A thoughtful study of the Negro revolution at a crucial stage...
CRISIS IN BLACK AND WHITE by Charles E. Silberman. 370 pages. Random House...
Many of the books now pouring off the presses on the race issue hesitate, falter, flounder and peter out in mawkish sentimentality or pious preaching. This book by Charles Silberman, a FORTUNE magazine editor, marches in no-nonsense fashion to a number of hard truths that are not meant to comfort or console. It is impossible, writes Silberman, "to tell the truth about race relations without offending and angering men of both colors." Some Silberman points...
...most impressive experiment affecting Negroes anywhere in the U.S.," says Silberman, took place in Chicago's Woodlawn slum. Despairing over the decline of their neighborhood, local clergymen called in Saul D. Alinsky, whose profession is creating large-scale grass-roots organizations in U.S. cities. Alinsky welded together such an effective group that it was able to organize a boycott of white merchants who overcharged the neighborhood. It forced slumlords to clean up their properties; it put the heat on city hall to relieve the overcrowding in the ghetto schools...
Alinsky is Silberman's chief hero, the man who has shown Negroes the way to make themselves most effective. Critics charge that Alinsky is an agitator, and Alinsky proudly agrees; he uses nearly any method for making authorities miserable-rent strikes, demonstrations, marches on city hall. His stated intent is to "rub raw the sores of discontent" in order to inspire a depressed community to act to help itself. Silberman argues that it is this individual participation in action that alone can give Negroes a real sense of their own dignity. "It is in the act (or the means...