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According to the letter, Mississippi Power and Light engaged in "racist hiring practices" and had an "affiliation with segregationist legislators." A covering letter from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee later that May traced a complicated set of inter-relationships that they said formed the Mississippi "power base" -- Mississippi Power, the anti-integration White Citizens' Council and the state Democratic Party. SNCC claimed that these three organizations were the dominant political and social forces in the state...
...phrases that really rocked the U.N. Plaza were those of Stokely Carmichael: "There is a higher law than the law of Racist McNamara; there is a higher law than the law of the fool Dean Rusk; there is a higher law than the law of the buffoon Lyndon Baines Johnson." Though Stokely never defined it, his law was demagoguery, pitched to all authority haters...
Rustin also commented on the recent exclusion of Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D.N.Y.) from his seat in Congress. "Although I questioned his behavior, I must condemn the emotional and unconstitutional behavior of congress in the matter," he said. Whether Congress excluded Powell from racist motives is immaterial, Rustin said. What matters is that Negroes interpret it as racism, he explained...
...Tetched." In 1962, Meredith risked his life in the battle to integrate the University of Mississippi. Last year, while taking a "march against fear" through his home state, he had shotgun pellets fired into him by a white racist. But from far-off Bimini, Powell, whose zestful pursuit of the sporting life has betrayed the Negroes' trust in him for years, branded Meredith as the "white man's candidate...
...initiative, but not yet a deadly one. Roy Wilkins wrote to say he had not known the NAACP was reprinting it: "My opinion of the Ryan piece and of similiar reasoning is well known to my immediate associate here....It is a silly and sinister distortion to classify as racist this inevitable discussion of a recognized phase of our so-called race problem." Wilkins's attitude was shared by other Negro leaders. During the summer, Whitney Young, Jr. several times noted, properly, that he had for years been writing about just such questions. In October in a speech in Westchester...