Posts Tagged ‘James Lawson’

How Stokely Carmichael Betrayed the Movement

In Oral History on 21 May 2010 tagged Black Power, James Lawson, March Against Fear, Stokely Carmichael with 3 comments

Stokely Carmichael’s cry for Black Power in ’66 was a cry of frustration. It did not have planning behind it, and in some ways I feel Stokely — whom I loved, whom I liked a good bit personally in 1960 when I first met him — betrayed the movement. That’s Rev. James Lawson on the […]