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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...
...midst of the week's melees, a score of Negro leaders representing every stripe, from the moderation of Roy Wilkins to the militance of Floyd McKissick, met outside New York City. Their agreed aim was to head off further racial eruptions this summer, and after the meeting Wilkins issued a "red alert" to the N.A.A.C.P.'s 1,500 chapters. "Don't just be against riots," Wilkins urged, "be active in preventing them." He announced that bumper stickers would be issued with slogans such as BRICKS THROUGH WINDOWS DON'T OPEN DOORS...
...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...
...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...