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Miss May writes to devastate, and, much to my delight, she comes down hard on everything, including white liberals, the New York Post , the University of Miami, SNCC, the CIA, Dore Schary and Conrad Hilton. The play is not outwardly disturbing, and yet one cannot help but cringe a bit with every joke. The authoress holds out no hope for anyone, and I can't imagine how anyone could prove her wrong...
That South Carolina was on trial, as well as the nine defendants, was made plain by Defense Counsel Frank Taylor, who told the jury: "Your duty is to back up these men." Referring to a SNCC organizer who had been in Orangeburg during the incident, Taylor told the jury to "show our disapproval of militants coming into South Carolina and inciting students." After less than an hour and a half, the jury decided that the highway patrolmen had only done what was expected of them, and found all nine innocent...
Bond sat calmly, with an air of detachment as a nervous student gave a brief biographical sketch of Julian Bond: "Charter member of SNCC...major tactician for the civil rights movement in the early sixties...hero of the new left...rebel in the bastion of southern politics...member of the Georgia legislature...controversal figure in the Democratic Convention...
...important point criticizes the common "umbrella" or "united front" structure of community organizations in which function follows form. Instead, Jenkins suggests that community organizations be "stacked and calculated" to achieve specific goals. That type of thinking, requiring more expertise than ideology, was behind early black-power efforts such as SNCC's 1966 Lowndes County, Alabama, election campaigns. And when the uproar has died down, that will remain the hard logic of black power...
...same skepticism is in junior Robert L. Hall's article, "SNCC's Call to North Black Students," an account and criticism of last March's New England Regional Black Student Conference, "Black Power and the Talented 10 Per Cent." That conference was a first formal aggravation of the northern black student's conscience, which had rested easier during the fifties and early sixties while racism was being battled mostly in the south. At last spring's conference, Hall reports, James Forman criticized black students at Northern prestige schools, told them: "You're not the talented 10 per cent--the talented...