Word: mckissick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also politically astute-an act of official beatification that brought cheers from virtually every segment of the civil rights spectrum and should earn the Administration points among disenchanted Negro voters in next year's elections. "This has stirred pride in the breast of every black American," said Floyd McKissick, combative director of the Congress of Racial Equality...
...Armah's formulation as "anti-racist racialism." This entailed the development of inorder to realize objectives--integration for example. The concept of "Black Power" has been inarticulately expressed in the ghetto for 50 years; Armah and Anochie, however, gave it sophisticated formulation four years before Stokeley Carmichael or Floyd McKissick...
...racialism." This entailed the development of institutions and points of strength in order to realize objectives--integration for example. The concept of "Black Power" has been inarticulately expressed in the ghetto for 50 years; Armah and Anochie, however, gave it sophisticated formulation four years before Stokeley Carmichael or Floyd McKissick...
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...
...McKissick urged the editors to "think back over the past months. You will begin to realize that the Negro is being rewarded by the public media only if he turns on another Negro and uses his tongue as a switchblade, or only if he sounds outlandish, extremist or psychotic." He added: "How many of you report even what middle-class Negroes do? Your social column, your engagement column, your local events column. We'd like to feel that what we did on the local scene was important. You know, we like news clippings...