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Outspoken as they were, McKissick and the committee on presidential credibility were the soul of restraint compared to what followed. Sweeping in with the brisk authority of a North Sea gale, British Press Lord Cecil King, 66, promised that his strictures on the U.S. press would be "mild and moderate." But anyone who reads King's raw and racy London Daily Mirror (circ. over 5,000,000) should have known that mildness and moderation are not traits that he admires...
According to CORE's national director, Floyd B. McKissick, "Today there are only two kinds of statements a black man can make and expect that the white press will report. First is an attack on another black man calling him an Uncle Tom [a charge McKissick himself has made once or twice] or a fanatic or a black nationalist. The second is a statement that sounds radical, violent, extreme-the verbal equivalent of a riot-Watts put into words...
Long the nation's most respected advocate of Negro advancement, King-a Nobel Peace Prizewinner-had held himself aloof from such demagogic "Black Power" advocates as S.N.C.C.'s Stokely Carmichael and CORE's Floyd McKissick. Indeed, King once vowed never to stand on the same platform with Carmichael as long as he spouted an anti-white line. By joining the Spring Mobilization, King reneged on that vow -and possibly on the entire cause of nonviolent Negro advancement...
...planning meetings for the demonstration as "dogfights." When Dave Dellinger, chief organizer of the New York march and editor of Liberation magazine, introduced the spokesmen of the Mobilization to the press the Friday before the march, his caution was almost humorous. The spokesmen ranged from Dr. Spock to Floyd McKissick. Dellinger emphasized several times that the statements would represent personal viewpoints, and "not an official Mobilization line, because there is none...
...spite of the internal strife and external harrassment, the coalition held together without a single defection, and when King, Spock, McKissick, Dellinger, Bevel, and the other principals led the march out of Central Park toward the U.N. shortly after 12 noon, they had a lot of people behind them...