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Civil rights leader Kuame Ture, better remembered as sixties activist Stokely Carmichael, last night told 200 listeners in Science Center B that Black students must unite to fight injustice and gain racial equality in the "politically back-ward" United States...
...United States is the most politically backward country in the world," Ture said, calling American culture "bourgeois" and the American political scene "obscene." But he added that "humans have an instinctive love for justice" and will keep fighting for equality until they overcome "vicious capitalist pigs...
...speech, sponsored by the Black Students Association (BSA) and the Harvard-Radcliffe Undergraduate Council, followed an afternoon workshop at Leverett House, in which Ture fielded questions from a smaller audience of primarily BSA members...
Workshop participants asked for a viable alternative to a capitalistic America based on "injustice and inequality," and Ture said that revolution was the only choice...
...Ture, an organizer for the socialist All-African Revolutionary People's Party, said that he "seeks recruits" to begin a Harvard chapter of his organization...