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IC o 00 i t ~ 2 i 9 a . . -. . 13 March 1973 p q 2 - c SPEClPI L INFORMATION REPORT . . The Black Power..Movement The conflict between black and white Americans is deep and cuts across such complex issues aa prejudice, employment and poverty. the President's National Advisory Cammission on Civil Disorders 'reported in 1968. even the best and most costly solutions might not fozestall further disorders. The Commission concluded that "if the Negro population as a whole developed even stronger feel- ings of being wrongly penned in and.discriminated against, many of its member8 m'ight come to support not only riots, but the r e - bellion now being preached by only a handful." . . Those conflicts cannot qzickly be resolved, and as %a : There a r e black Americans who are convinced that black people as a .group are relegated to a permanrnt minority status and that the white majority will never - without great pressure - allow black people to achieve full equality. Those who hold such deep-seated convictions a r e offering alternative philosophies to the American black people; and each of those philosophies hold the pros- pect of further civil conflict. activist organizations, most fail within the definition of one of three philosophies: the Nationalists, the Integrationists and the Revolu- tiona r ic s . . Although there a r e scores of black r The Integrationists' reached their 'pinnacle of prorninencc in the mid-1960's following several years of sit-ins and massive civil rights marches. principally in the southern states. was "massive demand. 'I Thcy demanded entrance to ciniversities, open housing, unrestricted use of public facilities. Their tactic They challengcd J . - . I 1 . . . . .