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...predominantly Negro Howard University to resist "the seductive blandishments of the white liberals" and seek "audacious power-black power." Members of two of the major civil rights groups, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Congress of Racial Equality, mouth it over and over. "Integration is irrelevant," cries SNCC Chairman Stokely Carmichael, 24. "Political and economic power is what the black people have to have...
Indeed, as applied by the young demagogues of SNCC and CORE, the notion of black power is inching dangerously toward a philosophy of black separatism and perhaps ultimately of black Jacobinism, almost indistinguishable from the wild-eyed doctrines of the Black Muslims and heavy with intimations of racial hatred...
...Gandhian doctrine of nonviolence espoused by Martin Luther King is in danger of crumbling. Last week James Meredith, the lone wolf whose ambush on Highway 51 persuaded other civil rights leaders to convert his solitary stroll into a mass march, declared that Negroes should at least defend themselves. SNCC's Carmichael admitted: "I have never rejected violence"-even though the word nonviolent is enshrined in the name of his organization. Says CORE's Director Floyd McKissick: "The greatest hypocrisy we have is the Statue of Liberty. We ought to break the young lady's legs and point...
Julian Bond, the SNCC worker who was refused his seat in the Georgia legislature because of his views on Vietnam, talked with quiet sincerity of American Negroes' opposition to "joining a white man's army to fight a white man's war. Why should we fight for a country that has never fought for us?" he asked...
Robert Penn Warren, Pultizer Prize-winning novelist, and William Alfred, professor of English and author of Hogan's Goat, will give a benefit reading for SNCC at 8:30 p.m. tonight in the Arlington St. Church. Tickets at the door...