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...further as a lackey of the "social welfare monopolicy--with its cop and spying attributes" that now proposed to force decent proletarian Negroes to live like the white bourgeoisie and to "torture" them with birth control. I had become a most suspect person indeed in the ranks of SNCC and CORE, and the Presidential initiative suffered accordingly...
...first step in establishing alternative service, according to its advocates, is to set up a board to approve projects proposed by agencies requesting national service volunteers. Peace Corps work would undoubtedly make the grade, as would work in hospitals and schools. But is a member of SNCC working in the national interest? Does a small community-organizing project which constantly irritates the local political machine have a place in the catalogue of alternative services...
Stokely Carmichael, first to use the words, let it be known that SNCC was working to consolidate "black power" in Lowndes County, Alabama. Few other definitions or coherent programs seem to have come from Carmichael's general direction...
...very use of the words. "Black power is racism in reverse," he said, reassuring the white liberals in the N.A.A.C.P. that they were needed, after all. Lillian Smith, author of Killers of the Dream and one of CORE's charter members, summarized the feelings of many white members of SNCC and CORE when she left the organization in a huff of epithets: "nihilists, old-fashioned haters, the new 'killers of the dream...
...most stunning conservative victories last month was that of Lester Maddox last week in the runoff for the Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Maddox's victory over ex-governor Ellis Arnall was caused partly by the SNCC-inspired Atlanta riots and Arnall's reluctance to campaign between the primary and the runoff. But it also confirmed suspicions resulting from the results of the 1964 Presidential election in Georgia. To the astonishment of most Democratic strategists, Goldwater captured Georgia's electoral votes. And the victory of Maddox, the red-neck who closed his restaurant rather than submit to the public accommodations provisions...