Clarion Defender_1967-08-10

S P E C I A L I S S U E THE C L A R I 0 N DE F E N DE R THE NORTHWEST OLDEST NEGRO PUBLICATION TAKES GREAT PRIDE IN PRESENTING FOR OUR READERS THREE GREAT STORIES FROM THE CURRANT ISSUE ISSUE OF EBONY MAGAZINE . WE GIVES THANKS TO EBONY'S PUBLISHER, JOHN H. JOHNSON FOR HIS PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THE MAGAZINE STATEMENT. Vol. 6 No.206 Cir. ll ,500- Business Office 2742 N. Williams Ave. Portland, Oregon 284-1289 10~ August 10, 1967 How The 'White Problem' Spawned 'BLACK POWER' Controversial movement started in the South from friction between black and white civil righters BY ALVIN F. POUSSAINT, M.D. Formerly Southern Field Di· re<.:tor of the Medical Commit– tee for Human Rights in Jack– son, ?\tis~\, the author is an assistant professor of psychia– try at Tufts University Medi– c:al College in Boston, Mass. The seholarly paper on which this artic:le is based was pre– scJtted in May before the an– nual meeting of the Amcric:an Psychiatric Assn. in Detroit. WE TAkE TliE doubT OUT of buyiNG AdiAMONd Diamonds of b-rilliance and clarity ... setti,ngs of outstanding craftsmanship and design and our reputation for quality and value make our collection something to see. People who want to be sure of their diamond purchase put their confidence in us. Open Every Night 'til g. DIVIDED PAYMENTS (Sat. 'til 5:30) Never any Interest or Carrying Charge Seattle, MA 2-SOll Lloyd Ce~Jter (West Mall) 284-2101 Salem, _364-2'.c~4 overcame, was rarely sun~t during the 1964 Mississippi I N THE summer of 1965 in Hattiesburg, !\1iss., long before the birth of the "black power" slogan, I asked Betty. a 17-year-old, Afro-Ameri– can civil rights worker, what she thought of white volunteers working in the movement. She thoughtfully turned her head to one side then snapped: "I definitely don't think they should be in the black com– munity. . . . :\1ost of them need to be wiped out but the few serious ones ought to be allowed to stay and work in the white community. Their problem is that they can work in the black community but caa't work in the white community. . .. If they think they can't work with the white folks , then they should go home and get themselves together -read a book or something." Betty had been involved in the Southern civil rights movement since age 14. She had suffered many beatings and jailings. Like many of the black youth in the South she had been "in it" from the beginning, fight– ing for "integration" and "freedom now." She was part of that coura– geous vanguard of Southern black youth whom we saw in newspaper pictures or on TV getting their heads bloodied and their souls violated by the swinging dubs of the white racists, I saw numerous ugly scars on the faces of these black youth-the price paid for trying to "integrate" a lunch counter or register a few Negroes to vote. Many exposed them- CONTINUED PAGE 5 Early emblem of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, viewed three years ago by Stokely Carmichael ( r. ) and a friend, had a white hand clasping a black. But latent mcism in Southern-based civil righters made integration difficult. , K eep calm and cool this SUMMER, says the DEFENDER, E verybody coun~s, no MATTER the gender. E fforts to be neighorly. to one and. all, P lays the greatest role· whether large or small. A sincer~ smile, 'rather· than & frown, might make happiness ~11 around .•. c -arr:y a des·; re to please the other MAN, / 0 ther~ hav~ feel~n~s to make this a fine 0 .rpit .co111cern for race, ·creed or color, L ove us an one and another. L~S. S tay .kjnd, thqughfu1 and personable, too. U tmo-st manner-s and respe-ct to alJ is , due. M ee,t your neighbo-rs . and .:brothers more than. halt' the. twa~, M ake; your · eve)'Y .thoug~ .to-.see .another f)Pr'f.~· "''~ . . • .• • • ,· J, • -- ~ '· ~I; • E yen .t5errfor ,iit)ze·Ji$! ,toddled ~ _. aa~~_s-e~gtS. a11.d?~~:~/ R ~,er~npt. J~'.tne ~S:tr~ets,;f:u1t.:..)l.~~- JJtt~~~:,:.; (':" .