Word: mckissick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Black Power, McKissick continued, has come to mean many things to different people. CORE, however, defines Black Power as having six major characteristics: political power, economic power, an improved Negro self-image, development of militant leaders, enforcement of Federal laws, and creation of a black consumer block...
...Washington can pass as many laws as it wants," McKissick said, "but as long as they're not enforced the situation is just as bad as when there weren't any laws...
...McKissick explained that CORE had gone through a major re-evaluation of its work in 1965, and found that all that they had helped to accomplish--a civil rights bill, two voting bills, and an anti-poverty program--would benefit only about ten per cent of the Negro population even under the best conditions...
...This talented tenth," McKissick continued, "is the only segment in the Negro population which has the money and mobility to take advantage of our work." The other 90 per cent of the American Negroes, he said, are incapable of enjoying the gains from CORE's work...
Since most Negroes are stuck in the ghettos, McKissick said, "we have to turn our attention to improving the conditions in which the mass of the Negroes live...