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...dynamite himself. But the night's haul was only two-and-a-half sticks, found under a couch. Later, police dug up some blasting caps in a North Philadelphia backyard and arrested a national Student Non-Violent Co-Ordinating Committee board member, a 19-year-old member of SNCC and a professional blaster...
...Police Department, which had, after all, assigned 400 men per stick of dynamite, was probably a little embarrassed by the outcome of the raids, but that did not match SNCC's embarrassment at the publicity. James Forman, SNCC national director, came into town immediately. He charged -- accurately -- that the police had, without evidence, given the impression that the dynamite plot was a SNCC conspiracy. Forman also charged -- perhaps less accurately -- that Rizzo had planted the dynamite himself...
Palmer said he felt that the raids were a good thing because they helped to solidify the black community. His only evidence was a few ads in the Negro newspaper and a few meetings. But Stokely Carmichael, national chairman of SNCC, was equally confident. "Next time racist Rizzo brings his troops into our neighborhood," Carmichael said, "he'll have to answer...
...describe two prototypes as indicative of the struggle going in within the "movement" is grossly inadequate. There are groups which have reached compromises between the two extremes which can't be wedged into either category. If Carmcihael's own organization, SNCC, is representative of the extreme left in the civil rights spectrum and NAACP at the extreme right, there are other groups which have reached a middle ground solution to the problem of whites working in Roxbury...
...means to achieve Black Power are revolutionary. The Negro is to use whatever tactics he is willing to take the consequences for, and this includes block voting, a general strike, or molotov cocktails. Carmichael is careful to dispel another myth--nonviolence, which he says the press attributed to SNCC. "We preach nonviolence among ourselves, but that's as far as it goes," Carmichael said. "They [the whites] don't tell you about the time we marched in Lawrence County with 900 armed men--they didn't mess with us," he added...