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...fundamental change has occurred in the nature of SNCC; this change portends the only reorientation of emphasis meaningfully possible; this emphasis must be irrevocably on blackness and black people...
With that declaration, Carmichael -- armed with little more than a rhetoric of outrage -- began to pursue the almost mystical notion that there is a frontier of American politics solely for Negroes, and that it is SNCC's to find. Mississippi Summer Project veterans Bob Moses and John Lewis were dismissed as revisionists. The new Howard educated policy-making core -- Carmichael, Courtland Cox, Charles Cobb, Cleveland Sellers -- focused on the words "self-determinism," "nationalism," and "black power." The newly evolving SNCC image was one of hard cool. The old tactic and credo of Ghandian pacifism was termed irrelevant...
...practices" and had an "affiliation with segregationist legislators." A covering letter from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee later that May traced a complicated set of inter-relationships that they said formed the Mississippi "power base" -- Mississippi Power, the anti-integration White Citizens' Council and the state Democratic Party. SNCC claimed that these three organizations were the dominant political and social forces in the state...
...Harvard exercised its interest in the power company, said SNCC and the students, the University could speed the drive to state-wide integration. "Mississippi is a profitable business enterprise," they challenged; "we wonder whether education is only incidental to the Board of Trustees. "In effect the issue was whether a corporation could separate itself from its product--in the University's case a liberally-educated...
...Cambridge--SDS got into the act and is still quietly campaigning against many of the University's financial policies. But the furor died away when President Pusey, in a return letter to the students, asserted the dichoomy between Harvard's intellectual and financial sides. Bennett--who maintains that SNCC "didn't have all the facts straight" three years ago--has maintained this policy since he took over as Treasurer from Cabot '21 in 1965. A director of Middle South Utilities, he runs the Harvard endowment in much the same fashion as he runs the several mutual funds and other investment...