Is Cambodia Next? Final Report of "Americans Want to Know".
Washington, DC: Russell Press, 1967. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. [2], 45, [1] p. illus., map. 21 x 22 cm. The contributoers were Kay Boyle, Don Duncan, Russell Johnson, Floyd McKissick, and Marc Stone From Wikipedia: "Floyd Bixler McKissick (1922 1991) was born in Asheville, North Carolina on March 9, 1922. He became the first African American student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Law School. In 1966 he became leader of CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, taking over from James L. Farmer, Jr. A supporter of Black Power, he turned CORE into a more radical movement. In 1968, McKissick left CORE to found Soul City in Warren County, North Carolina. He endorsed Richard Nixon for president that year, and the federal government, under President Nixon, supported Soul City. He became a state district court judge in 1990 and died on April 28, 1991. He was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity....After the Greensboro sit-in at Woolworth s lunch counter on February 1, 1960 Gordon Carey and James T. McCain, CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) field secretaries, were sent to the Carolinas to help with the negotiating of department store owners and to spark interest in more sit-ins. Carey was introduced to McKissick during this time. Carey helped McKissick and students organize the demonstrations that broke out on February 8th in Durham, and in the course of the next few weeks the two men travelled over the state setting up non-violent workshops. McKissick handled legal affairs for both the NAACP and CORE, but he withdrew from the NAACP. After leaving the NAACP and showing loyalty to CORE, he was elected to the CORE national chairmanship at the 1963 Convention. When Floyd McKissick replaced James Farmer as head of CORE on January 3, 1966, the organization completed a 180-degree turn that saw it change from an interracial integrationist civil rights agency pledged to uphold nonviolence into a militant and uncompromising advocate of the ideology of black power. In 1966, James Meredith challenged America s social system of poverty, racial segregation, and white supremacy by vowing to walk alone from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi. McKissick who had recently been elected head of CORE, promised to support Meredith in his journey. Along with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Stokely Carmichael, McKissick assisted in leading a group of demonstrators the remaining 194 miles to Jackson, Mississippi. McKissick states, "We issued the call to bring all the organizations together to continue the march at the spot where he fell." McKissick and Roy Innis, who at that time was the head of the Harlem chapter of CORE, were close allies, and when McKissick left CORE in 1968, Innis took over." Condition: Good. COver has some wear and soiling. Corners bumped. Some page undulation. Old ink price on front cover.
Keywords: Kay Boyle, Don Duncan, Russel Johnson, Floyd McKissick, Marc Stone, Sihanouk, Escalation, Indochina, Anti-war Movement, Peace Activists, Ossie Davis
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Price: $45.00