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james-farmer — Part 01

4 pages · May 12, 2026 · Broad topic: General · Topic: james-farmer · 4 pages OCR'd
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Core Tolson 0-19Rev.11-30-65 DeLoach Mohr Growing NegroMilitangu 1s Cited by Farmer Casper Callahan b6 CORE Director's Book Warns b7C Rights Groups Are Experted Conrad of More. Demonstrations Felt Sto Siress Direct Approach. Gale Rosen By.M.S.HANDLER Change in Attitude Sullivan Black natlonalism is the Eormer attributed thew Tavel dominant mood of the Negro revolutionary mood or the Ne- gro people who wish to win Trotter day,according toJames Fam their freedom instead of receiv- Wick erwho was white liberals in ingit as a gift from the white his boo Freedom When?" man to a number of factors. Tele. Room These include the influence Holmes ofMalcolm X,whomMr.Farm- erpaid tribute for contributians Gandy formis of direct action until full equality is achieved. to the awakening self-consci- The.national director of the ousness ofthe Negro people, although Mr. Farmer said that Congress of Racial Equaligy is leaving the organization at the he did not agree with the late end of this month to become Black Muslim leader on many head of the new Center for points. Community Action Education, Other factors, he said, are pride of' achievement in the education inadequate to the de Inc.in Washington.The agency will develop job training and civil rights struggle and .the mandsof our technological literacy programs with Federal search for black identity.": economy." and privatefinanging. Other contribution to this self-consciousness In addition to programsto .Freedom-When? is some- awakening are the new generation of Negr deal with these new enemies," thing.of a testamentary analysis Mr. Farmer said,CoRE must of the civil rights organization's writers-James Baldwin.Ossie history, its philosophy of ac- Davis,John Williams,John Oliver Killens and Louis Lomax theNegroes/intensively for so- tion,a purviewof the civil cial and political action without rights struggleagainst the Mr.Farmer said. Malcom xMr. Farmer which the plight of the Negroes background of American his- ery and an intimate view of mesentiments and motivations pacton my own thingking.His f the Negro people. Qwn tragically brief career ex- emplified the best and the worst Random House Feb. 18. It is in the Muslim influences. intended as a prod to the white "From an uneducated, nar- liberals to shed their illusions cogics-addicted denizen of he and face the realities of the New.York underworld, Malcom Negroes' aspirations to aright- became an articulate and extfa- furplace in the American sun. ord narily disciplined spoeks- ma for the Muslims.He was a Sees a Betrayat regenerated man,fascinating The NeRECw34 "The humiliation and, fury and powerful." James Farme CJaa LUN that a man feelsMr. Farmer He spoke with great, if un- 170 MAR 12 1969 writes, "when he 'has Deen tutored, lucidity, and he had a following.of admires-some what he said. was so valid brutally treated are rendered in- supportedly bitter if he dis- psychologically, Malcolm and The Washington Post w... covers that he has also Deen apparent if one simply counts his heirs have succeeded in dis. betrayed. Muslim membership." crediting the whole philosphy Times Herald You may say that the'Negro Saying :that hecoyld of nonviolence in the eyes of The Washington Daily News not agreewithMalcoln's phflosophy,Mr. Farmer felt that many Negroeshe wrote. trayal much longer, for they The Evening Star arerapidly flinging aside all nevertheless Malcolm's theories Mr.Farmer said the Negroes today must move into the field New York Herald Tribune their illusions about the good willos the white man." torice facts and corresponded of political action, elect their New York Journal-American In response to the often-heard own candidates to public office New York Daily News whiteman's question, groes. and learn how to use political when will the demonstrations The white man has been free power as an instrument to New York Post end?,Mr.Farmer says that to murder and maraud for cen- further their cause. The New York Times without demonstrations turies; with impunity he has Mr. Farmer said that the Negroes would have achieved raped our women and emas- nlovement faced new.problems The Baltimore Sun nothing, that demonstrations cultated our sons.We werenot today,that the other enemies The Worker are their indispensable weapon. even permitted what every of .the Negro are those im "What the public must realize other age and society has re- The New Lcader ds that in a demonstration more spected as an apt response- nomic life whish produce mass The Wal! Street Journal things are happening at more personal revenage." unemployment, urbaH squalor, levels of human activity, than Malcolm assumed that where The Nationa! Observer. meet the eye, he says. "Dem- Negroes are concerned, there People's wt onstrations in the last few years is no law; that indeed the law have provided literally millions is a. mask for white oppres- Date of Negroes with their first taste .of self-determination and poli- sion,"he said. Precisely because.so much of tical self-expression. We might thnk of the demonstratipn as rite_ which ust- ered. freec'om. b6 b7C
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