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- will not 'willingly' yield to
the democratic concept . of 'majority rule'."
lJ)e
- this way:
the place
of Black Power in
" •·slack Power in reference
to whi tc America
will not be lilte White Po-:.-er in. l"eference to blacl~-
America nor to America as a whole.
White Power -
in its varied segments (for it is not whol~) -has failed us
- leadership that counseled
moderation and a legalistic, non-violent approach was
challenged to demonstrate how that approach had led to
social and economic improvement for the Negro.
In the South, non-violent action frequently engendered
a violent response
- self
defense wu.s to attack.
Many· speakers, however, ·warned that
N~groes were not yet ready to confront the
11
\•1hi te
power
structur~." - Even _Rap Brown warned that it would be"self
genocide" to challenge whitci America to physical
- . advises just enough
·moderate violence to get twenty million niggers the hell
.out of America."
CONNIELYNCHthen S?Oke. In opening his remarks
he greeted everyone· in the name of JESUS CHRIST. He said
"We want to briefly
introduce
ourselves
to you, well
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often than not by some quite ordi11ary and proper
action by a policeman.
Thry were dclihcralc in the
sense that they were dirceted, lo an extent that varied
From city to city, against specific targets."
J. Edgar Hoo,·cr, director or the Federal Bureau
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judgment required
here is that there is a definite need for •
the assistance
of Federal troops;
taking into account the re
maining time needed to move them into action at the scene
of violence.
(3) That the legislature
or the governor
requests
- that, if the disorder followed the pattern of
p st disturbances in Elizabeth and elsewhere, the following day
ld see an i ntensification of action on the part of the youths.
patrolled» the 36 square blocks with more than 100
, some of them stationed o n rooftops
