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...Left is determined not to cooperate with groups that have even slightly bowed to the status quo. When Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin suggested that the New Left shift from protest to coalition politics and work with labor and liberals, he was berated as a cop-out who was threatening its moral purity. Michael Harrington, who put poverty on the map in his book The Other America, is now similarly denounced; he calls the New Leftists "mystical militants...
...Bayard Rustin, who organized the successful March on Washington, voiced a disappointment felt by many Negroes. "There is not going to be a tremendous rush of Negroes into the peace movement," said Rustin. In fact, many Negroes have found service in Viet Nam valuable in proving their courage-a quantity whose fierce abundance has never before been tapped in American armed combat quite so effectively...
...commenting upon "Black Power," however, Rustin felt that the institutions of the Negro community should be involved in any organizing effort, that the middle classes should be concentrated upon, and that it should be fun. "You've got to have some fun, because we are a fun-loving people." Of course the lighter aspects should in no way supercede the more down-to-earth requirements of organization...
While stressing Stokely Carmichael's drive and creativity, Rustin did express concern at the following which the young radical has acquired among Negroes attending college. What disturbed Rustin most was Carmichael's lack of a program, a concern which the Negro members of the seminar assured him that they shared. They thanked him for his clarification of the issues and for the opportunity to appreciate the contributions that have been made, and continue to be made, by the "older generation...
...Rustin replied, "It was inevitable that Booker T. Washington -- a man whose accomplishments are too often underrated -- be succeeded by Du Bois, and Du Bois by A. Phillip Randolph. So today, when Randolph says to me, 'Bayard, I just don't understand what these kids are saying today. I don't understand them. Do you?' I tell him, 'No, Phillip. But don't worry about it. You didn't understand Washington or Du Bois, and they didn't understand...