International Marxist Group Archive

Magazines, bulletins and booklets of the IMG and its forerunners, 1961–1984

Core Calls for "black Revolution!

The Week Vol. 8, No. 3, 20 July 1967 · p. 9 of the scan · 121 words

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At the Congree for Racial Equality national convention it was agreed that the words"multiracial" be removed from the description of its membership. Floyd McKissick,national director, said this "didn't exclude any white people from CORE." When the convention adjourned McKissick said he considered CORE "an effective revolutionary movement" and "the common front for all black people to unite in." He repeated an earlier statement that the civil rights movement was "dead" and a "black revolution" had emerged. The effective role for white people was to "understand the racism that exists and understand how it affects black people in their thinking towards white people, McKissick said the organisation wanted white people "to have an effective role in helping black people accomplish black power,"

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