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...rally's main speaker, Floyd McKissick, former head of CORE, praised black students for the takeovers of University buildings and condemned Harvard for its "racism...
...also announced yesterday plans for a mass rally on Sunday at Memorial Church, for which they are "asking for and expecting to receive support from many sectors of the black community." OBU has invited national black leader Floyd McKissick and Fanny Lou Hamer of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to speak at the rally...
Ralph Abernathy, chairman of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference as well as national black leaders McKissick, Roy Innis, and Jessie Jackson have sent messages of support...
...kind of slipshod procedures that resulted in the use of funds to guarantee a $135,000 bank loan to Lou Brock, the St. Louis Cardinals star whose salary is $85,000. "Black capitalism has not failed, because it was never given a chance," said former CORE director Floyd McKissick...
...Innis, a Harlem-honed black nationalist, will formally replace McKissick next month at CORE's convention in Columbus. Innis, 34, is a bearded manifesto maker who holds that "separation of unlikes is the natural condition of society," and says that blacks generally favor nonviolence, but "not over the achievement of nationalistic objectives." He professes a fear of genocide, not "by the gas chamber but by the slow taking away of our existence" through racial amalgamation. Appealing to Negroes to improve their own lot rather than die in all-out conflict with the white man, Innis adds nonetheless: "We believe...