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ie APPEARANCE OF STOKELY CARMICHAEL, NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF STUDENT NON~ VIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE, PHILADELPHIA, PA., AUGUST 30, 1966 street meetings, which were not well more than 50 to 100 people, CARMICHAEL, ORMAN, National officiad of SNCC, held a attended, Grawing along with JAME in Philadelphia from 8:00'to 9:30 p.m. One purpose of the — meeting was to raise the costs of bail bonds for the three “pally at the pturch of the Advocate, 18th and. Diamond Streets, -- SNCC people arrested by the Philadelphia Police Department ~ -.’ in the dynamite case. CARMICHAEL, in his address to the approximately: 1,000 people attending the rally, extolled the virtues of "Black Power." His theme was for the Negro to unite and quit fighting among themselves and become a force against the white man so that the black man would no longer be the white man's slave. CARMICHAEL said that the Negro in Phila- delphia must reject anything at all proposed by the City of Philadelphia because it was white and "racist." CARMICHAEL also told the audience that the black. man should not serve in Vietnam. He characterized this as “black urban removal." He also said that the Black Power . movement had no place for whites of any description to take part in the movement. He also advocated control of the po- lice districts in which Negroes resided by the black man:. the captain of these districts should be responsible to the Negro; the police officer working in the Negro community should live in the Negro community. He also proposed shut- - ting down the State liquor stores so that the white man could not sell the Negro cheap, disgusting, poisonous wine to destroy the Negro. The Negro must control the community economically, as well as politically. A filmed news. revort of Station KYW-TV in Phila- delphia on the 11 p.m. news broadcast, August 30, 1966, con- tained a three to four minute segment in which JAMES FORMAN wes the speaker. FORMAN stated that the news media people came to SNCC's raliies and the news-worthy situations to exploit the situation and that since the television crews were making $300-$400 per week for their coverage of SNCC's activities -~2-