The NAACP, Black Power, and the African American Freedom Struggle, 1966-1969.

From: The Historian | Date: March 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

"[Black Power] is a reverse Mississippi, a reverse Hitler, a reverse Ku Klux Klan."

--Roy Wilkins, NAACP executive director, 5 July 1966

"all of the goals which Mr. Carmichael ... asserts to be comprehended in the phrase 'Black Power' turn out ... to be merely restatements of goals pursued by the NAACP since its founding."

--John Morsell, NAACP assistant executive director, 3 November 1966

INTRODUCTION

ON THE EVENING OF 17 June 1966, Stokely Carmichael, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), addressed a rally in Greenwood, ...

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