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Tricked out in gaudy tribal trappings, Black Power Warrior Stokely Carmichael, 26, and Click-Singer Miriam Makeba, 36, celebrated their recent marriage at a reception held in Mount Vernon, N.Y., by Akili Danieli, Tanzanian Ambassador to the U.N. Married secretly about a month ago in Washington, D.C., the couple canceled their plans for a mammoth reception because of Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination. Now the newlyweds have little time for honeymooning. Miriam went to South America for a monthlong concert tour; Stokely holed up in Washington and let the world know that Black Power machinations and marriage were...
...fairly typical. Advance radio plugs had invited the populace to the airport for a "moonlight meeting" with Bobby and Ethel. A mammoth traffic jam resulted. Finally arriving in the city, Kennedy stood on his convertible's hood with his Irish cocker spaniel Freckles at his feet. At Mt. Vernon and North Champion Avenues in the Negro Near East Side, friendly crowds engulfed the car. Admirers fell over each other and into the motorcade's path; Kennedy aides had to scoop children from harm's way. One mother plunked her baby on Ethel's lap, trotted alongside for ten blocks while...
...commercial networks all contributed to the project. In NET's Journal series, two powerful programs in the past month chronicled the search for black identity among the Negro middle class and university students. This week the subject is racism in suburbia, with a revealing case study of Mount Vernon...
...yesterday the students of Calvin Coolidge College took to the streets. They paraded up and down in front of the 45 Mount Vernon Street offices with placards urging that Calvin Coolidge College be retained. They came with a plan to save the college and, by asking for $10 from each of the school's 100 students, hired a lawyer who will move against the Trustees in the event of a phase-out. The plan to save the college, which has the endorsement of the college's dean, involves affiliating with Newton's Mount Ida Junior College. The chief stumbling block...
...list of appointees includes Vernon J. Jordan Jr., director of the Voter Education Project of the Southern Regional Council and a former Field Director of the NAACP. Jordan is the first black to be appointed a fellow in the three-year history of the Kennedy School Program...