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...appalling 65% of East St. Louis' housing is substandard; a full 21% of the work force is unemployed; nearly a third of the city's families-55%-60% of them Negroes-are on some form of relief. Fine kindling for riot, and last week Firebrand H. Rap Brown applied the match...
...REPORTS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The New Left," an examination of the rebellion against not simply "the right" but society in general, via interviews with a dozen or so New Leftists (including Ramparts Managing Editor Bob Scheer, Yale's Staughton Lynd, SNCCers Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown) as well as Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Ronald Reagan...
S.N.C.C. Leader H. Rap Brown emerged undaunted last week from four days of imprisonment in New York City. Arrested for transporting a .30-cal. carbine over state lines while under indictment for his role in the Cam bridge, Md., riots the previous month, Brown was released only after his bail had been reduced from $25,000 to $15,000 (bondsmen would not put up the bail, which had to be raised in toto among S.N.C.C sympathizers). "If President Johnson is worried about my rifle," he said on leaving jail, "wait until I get my atom bomb...
...York, S.N.C.C.'s 23-year-old nonstudent advocate of violence, H. Rap Brown, could also have used some cash. At week's end Brown was behind bars, unable to raise $25,000 bail, after federal agents seized him for transporting a .30-cal. semiautomatic carbine across state lines on flights to and from New Orleans while under indictment in Maryland for inciting a riot. On the latest charge he faces a maximum of five years in the penitentiary and a $2,000 fine. Meanwhile, Stokely Carmichael, Brown's predecessor as chairman of S.N.C.C. was reported en route...
...When H. Rap Brown was in diapers and Stokely Carmichael a three-year-old toddler, a group of fledgling Negro flyers shattered tradition in an unsuccessful attempt to integrate the all-white officers' club at Selfridge Field near Detroit. That was in 1944. Last week a veteran of that long-ago sit-in challenged today's hot gospelers of Black Power...