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DeLoach
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Growing NegroMilitangu 1s Cited by Farmer
Casper
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CORE Director's Book Warns
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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.
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