4-9-67

Nashville's 13 Campuses With Activities Against Special to The Worker

NASHVILLE, Tenn. This city of half a million is represe11tative of the rising anti-war sentiment in the South. The most vocal and militant peace groups came from tbe city's 13 colleges and univer­sities.

The most recent student action occurred during President John­son's speech before the Tennes­see legislature when staff of the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC) and mem­bers of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) oh.aptel's at Fisk and State A & I uAiversities cooperated in an in­terracial demonstration at the capitol building.

Three of the SSOC staff were ~rrested when theY' sat down in front of th'e President's limousine. Out of that developed a city­vide SSOC chapter which ·in­cludes students and professors from colleges and high schools as well as staff.

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come more organized and varied \n its activity.

Operation Open Debate (OOD), located in Nashville, a South­wide peace project of the South­ern Conference Edueationa!lUiia ~), recently sponsored a ~Y Stanley Sheinbaum of ltimparlS mag81lllle. He spoke at t'andetibH£ Umversity on "The CiA, the Omverstb and the War" and evoked good response when he pointed. out how the · CIA scandal is but ~n expose of the government's ·determination to stlffie our civil liberties. The Naslhville Committee For Alter­natives to fibe War m Vietnam and the yandex:bilt Committee J! the same name sponsored visit locally.

t When Sheinbaum went on to ~;peak at Southwestern in Mell1!Phis, the deans suddenly cancelled his speech.. But stu­dents insisted he appear anyway, The administra.tion backed down when Sheinoaum showed up.)

* mE OOD ALSO HAS a "Peace Caravan" which is traveling trom campus to campus in the

LAST JULY 4 the city wit- South. nessed a peace fast by seven One ot the oldest active peace persons on the steps of the War groups is the Nashville Commit-Memorial Auditorium. They con- tee for Alternatives which has tinued four days until police ar- ~erved as a coordmating group rested them and 15 supporters on peace issues. when t.hey arrived to bail the They 'have brought speakers tasters out of jail. and 1i1ms to the city, placed ads

Since last summer the peace about the Vietnam war In the movement in Nashvill,e has be- daily paper, circulated literature 4-THE VANDERBILT HOSTLER APRIL 11,1967

Stirring Viet War and a newsletter whicb re~t.ch over 200 in Nashville. Committee members •have J)articipated in debates on an the major radio and TV stat~ons, lectured at choo:ohes and, on July 3, the- day before the peace fast. leafteted in front of churches. The Com­mittee got out over 100 marchers on Easter 1966 during the Inter­national Days of Protest - the larg~ turnout for any Southern city.

In February of this year tbe;r ·co-sponsored with the American Friend~ Serv~e Committee and the Unitarians tor Social\Respon• sihi:lity a speech by Russell Johnson, field secretazy for the Friends. Johnson bd ·just re­turned .from a State Department trip to North Vietnam and Cam­bodia. Speaking before 300 per­SOD9, he stressed that the U.S., not Chma, is the aggressor in Southeast Asia.

* OTHER anti-war groups have sprung up recently including the Committee to End ·the Drafi formed by Vanderbllt 'students in February when thn. Hershey spoke at the National Guard ffftry. Vanderb1lt divmt!Y stu-

ents recently began their own aa-hOc group opposed to the war, and an inter-university peace fellowship has 6een formed.

Durmg Spring .Mobiliza'tion Week, April 10-15, the Vander­bilt Committee for Alternatives will Show iltmS and set up anti­war literature 'ta!bles on campus.

Poet-Prophet Ginsberg Holds ~Intercourse-With lnnerMind

" Poet, beatnik, sometimes proph­et and perpetual student Allen Ginsberg held a three hour seance in the basement of Branscomb Quadrangle following the Friday session of IMPACT '67 m which he extolled the virtues of LSD, the fantaSY ot masturbation and the . com£!lete awareness achieved ~ sexual intercourse.

Uring the rantasy Of mastur­bation all dreams come to the surface and teach us who we are and what we are looking for t'l•

" For Gm.sberg, - complete indi­vidual awareness is the most im­portant achievement for an in­dividual in his or her lifetime. He feels that one must reveal the innermost thoughts of his mind in order to be completely aware.. LSD is one means towards this intimate relationship with the in­ner conscious, Masturbation, in­tercourse and .. ~, (marijuana) are other means. ' , •

Surprisingly, the I!J!te le~ attack on the present U.s. pocy in Vietnam contaiiled few "oi)o.

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'Teach-In' Moral Rearm•ment Story on

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By JACQUE STUBBEL S t u d e n t anti-war groups

throughout the e o u n try are massing for a two-day attack a g a 1 n s t what they calL the "Washington war machine" and . .zashvllle's small band of ca.m­l>Us pacitist.s do not intend to be left out of the action. • , •

In Nashville, posters are now l;leing commercially printed .for the plped-Ln VIet Nam debate.

Groups other than SDS known to be sponsoring or helping In t,bls f)roject are the NUhvllle Committee for a Public Hearing on Viet Nam (a!.filiated with tbe Inter-University Commlttee for a Public Hea.r,ln~r on Viet Nam, Ann Arbor. Mich.) and the Southern Student Or~an!zlng Committee (SSOC) whlcli has re­cently moved from lt.s 9U 18th Ave. S. location to 1703 Portland Ave. near Belmont College.

Chairman of the Nashville comnuttee for a PuhUc Hearing­on VIet Nam Is ~r. Maver ZaldL

rotessor of socloo a( Vander­versl .

Othel:' faculty advisers are Dr. Nelson Fuson, trea.o;urer, and professor of physics, Fisk Uni­versity; Dr. Stanley Alprln, a profe-ssor ot education, Fisk; Dr; Robert Bjork, a. profeasor of eco­nomlcs on Ieaiie from Peabody College; Benry Koestllne, public relations director for Scarritt College. and Richard Waddell, director or thr. student chrts£lii1l

qsocta on l , an er Student committee membera

are Eleanor Brownfield, Vander• bill sophomore; Edwin Goff a jUnior: Sbet·ry:Mters. gradu~te of Pea&ild~ Co ege; Harriet Parker. Peabody.

Unlike their paclfi!lt counter­-parb in Berkeley, Na.shvllle'l peace groups have planned· no dctlnlte demonstrations.

One anti-war spokesman ,aa..ve. the reason tor this as "student apathy and poor organization." He added reg.rettully, "the -.v• Prage college lltudent here pre­fers ~o supnort·A.merlcan act:lon ,In Vtet, Nam."

Chapter Gone

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Successor 10-26-66

To SDS? There rs good possibility the

Southern Student OrganJzbig Committee (SSOC), 1708 Port­land Ave., Will be successor to the now "dissolved" ~­bllt chapter of the Students !or a Democrl(ltic Society tSDS). -ss5c, less publicized, ha.s been the silent but staunch supporter of SDS since ita filr·

Sn editorial, "Significant Omlnions: Leftwing'• Smear Brigade Silent on U. S. Ene­mits,'' on page 10.

matlon here tn 1~6~ It stAtes M ll$ primary field of en­deavor to engage "white stu­dents on southern campuses in civil rights activities."

Financer for this group has been the controversial South­ern Conference Educa~ Fund Inc., headquartered in New Orleans but largely di­rected through Carl Brad~n In Loulsvl11e, Ky.

Brac;len, Jo.ng-time opponent of tbe House Un-America.n Ac­Uvltles Committee, spoke at Vanderbilt's Alumni Hall last FEibruary. Ells topic was "Sbould There Be Free Speech m Communists:•

SSOC makes the claim that It baa no actual members by name-on~y an ext'remely large mailing list.

SDSers frequently attended conterences spopsored by this group .of white integrationists and there ha.s been Inter-meet­Ings of the two.

It Is a habit or l!UCh left­wing. student g-J·oups tn or­gant:~:e and then diS!!olve- with­In 'It year or two after their formation.

Good evidence or this Is the University of California at Berkeley which spawned the now-dissoLved Free S l> e e c h Movement IFSMJ. Us sue­-cessot Is ~a Free Spe~h Un­ion CFSU) and reports indi­cate it is thriving on that West Coast can'Jpu!;.

The Vandubj)t chapler of SDS began in 1964 and has participated 'in a drjye to abol­Ish capital punishment In Ten­nessee, co·sponsored teach-ins on VJet Na m · ~ponsored a speech hy FSM >eaaer steve Weissman and sponsored a booth during last yeaJ•'s IM· PACT symposium at Vander bllt pt·otesting policies of Gov. George Wallace.

Lee Frissell, fol'mer presl· dent of SDS. would not com­ment on its successor except tbat It' would be "different'' and 1\n independent liberaL organization.

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Small Group scenities." • - • This is the same Allen Ginsberg who

relieved himself on the stage while speaking at l:larvard Universit.,y.

Photo from "The TJ'uth About Berklev"

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Hears Viet "A lot of the language heard here haa ~n confuted bullahlt," aald Ginsberg in prefaolng a reading from his works. "My poetry is of one who haa experienced niMII~

and returned to tell Nalh· ville." • • • "Wichita Vortex Sutra" is a

recently published (Grove Press) poem of Ginsberg's written wh1le "driving betWeen Wichita (Kan.) and Lincoln (Neb.). 1t is taken from the inner mind rather than from what is suitable to be read in public.''

"The war is over now -/ Ex­cept for the souls/ held pri$oner in N)ggertown/ still pitnnng ~or love of your tender white bodies o children of Wichita!,.

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What Price Folly? (An Editorial)

NOTHING THAT COULD BE SAID by way of public he is a voice exhorting for lawlessness and civil apology-nor any innings of after-the-fact re- chaos, and no government or people anywhere who

morse, felt or spoken, on the part of his sponsors expect to preserve public order, security, and tran­there-can remove the stench of the Stokely Car- quility, can long countenance that sort of preach­michael visit to Vanderbilt University; and the tragic ment and still walk safely the streets of any civilized infliction of civil disturbance that broke out a little community. later a few blocks distant, and has raged through two nights. This violence occurred precisely as planned, and concernin~ it the public had been amply warned. Carmichael h1mseU clearly confirmed the intention when-in an earlier diatribe against The Nashville Banner-he boasted that, yes, he was here to make trouble.

The stupidity of a campus group's explanation that he was brought here as part of a "search for truth" was more than matched-it was exceeded -by Vanderbilt administrative officers who so far disregarded a duty to the campus, the institution, and the community itself, as to publicly endorse the appearance of Carmichael - and became particeps to it. It is colossal stupidity indeed, to suggest that one must lift the Ud of a garbage can to discover that there is garba~e in it.

That Pandora's Box of ·VIolent contents was opened by academic hands and with high official consent is a fact so self-evident as to brand as totally inane expressions of wonderment after-the-fact con~ cerning what happened, how, and why. The contri­butory circumstances speak for themselves.

In the final anlysis, the ultimate responsibility for what occurred lies at the door of the Chancellor, and fellow-administrative authorities at Vanderbilt University.

* * * CARMICHAEL WAS HERE at the invitation of a sponsoring group in the student body; but that

invitation subsequently was approved in a public statement by the Chancellor himseU-making much of the "free expression" pitch, and the so-called "search for truth." By now that phony search has borne fruition in the chaos that has marked Nash­ville for two nights.

Infamy is the Carmichael stock in trade; his total text as an exhorter for violence and spieler of sedition toward the country he has adopted for pur­poses of arson. For boundless arrogance in preach­ment of bfite and anarchy, there is for this free-wheel­ing, treason-minded alien no parallel in America's history. That was known before he planted his feet on any Nashville rostrum-and long before the invi­tation was sent, and finally accepted, to use Vander­bilt as his forum. True, in that appearance he was outwardly all sweetness and light, but be went from there to the Fisk campus where earlier he bad laid the ground work and where the trouble broke out, with him prominently present at the spark point. Last night's rioting centered at Tennessee A&I Uni­versity, a tax-supported institution, whose adminis­tration had clearly renounced the Carmichael ap­pearance there.

This was no "ghetto" affair in either instance, but a riotous student demonstration promoted by imported disturbers brought in by and with Stokely Carmi<;hael.

* * * THE BANNER'S OBJECTION to the Vanderbilt af-fair of community disgrace at no point related

to racism, nor to considerations of free speech-of which the sponsoring element made much in its ridiculously tortured argument of justification.

This newspaper believes in that basic freedom. Since the day of its founding it has been the ad­vocate and staunch defender of free expression within the meanin( of that constitutional guaran­tee. But it has had occasion also to point out that liberty is not license. And The Banner has not, and never will subscribe to the customary rationaliza­tion resorted to by liberals in the name of free ex· pression when Stokely Carmichael-or anyone else -openly and in the city of Nashville preaches sedi­tion, Insurrection, anarchy, murder and arson.

Stokely Carmichael may be "just a voice," but

* * * SATURDAY'S AFFRONT was compounded by the fact that the slurs of this Trinidad-born char­

acter-who hasn't even acquired citizenship by naturalization-who reviles the Flag and everything for which it stands-made his guest appearance in a setting hallowed to the memory of Vanderbilt men who died in their country's service in World War II.

Such was the creation of that Memorial Gym­nasium, patriotic in purpose. and its cost borne by Vanderbilt alumni, friends, and the parents of an honored company who gave their last full measure of devotion to the nation they loved and the Flag under which they served.

Comes then, by invitation, this enemy of America and Americanism whose ideological pitch it is to walk on these graves, to smear every man-regard­less of color-now in uniform; to insult the nation which bas given him sanctuary, solicit total defiance of its laws, and espouse a "retaliatory" racial course of "Kill and Burn."

Kill whom, and burn what? Anybody or anything that gets in the way.

* * * SUCH A THREAT is not a mere figure of speech-and no more is the Carmichael importuning for

mass violation of the law, as manifested in the shock­ing aftermath of his visit here. His pet invectives are those of total contempt for the United States, underscored by his assignment of the land "to Hell!" -the malevolence ·of a mind berserk with its own consuming hate.

Does this malce for a "celebrity," entitled to public indulgence as an "interesting'' provocateur -an eccentric to be suffered in the name of "free speech"-or to adulation as some kind of hero for tbe very brazenness of his appeals to treason?

The answer to those questions uniformly would be "No." If there is a degree of public insanity that conditions some minds to filth, or gets its kicks out oi subv(!J.·sion by exhibitionist, itinerant firebrands, soiling and vandalizing the nation's temple, with kind­red designs upon its soul, let it be said that majority America-young and old, and irrespective of race -shuns the contagion.

* * * CARMICHAEL'S TYPE of attempted brainwashing isn't done with detergents. It's a borrowed recipe,

practiced by colleagues afar-alike bent on over­throwing this nation by subverting its character.

There IS a good use. however, for soap and water; and Nashville could have used it advantage­ously-for purposes of individual, institutional, and community sanitation Saturday night.

Unfortunately, scars inilicted by wiliul abras­ion do not wasb off so easily. Acid etches, and toxic doses-unless counteracted swiftly by people of jud~ent exercisJng good sense-can destroy.

Carmichael & Co. should never have been brought to Nashville. That isn't evident only after the fact.

'l'he disgraceful episode with its lingering burden of more than coincidental tragedy bas occurred­and no washing of hands can acquit of responsibility those who set the stage for it; the sponsors and those who gave consent. Late as it is, it is devoutly to be hoped that henceforth these sponsoring groups, and the administrative echelons who more than infer­entiaUy indorsed it, will be more particular about the company thev entertain.

When the citizenship of this community has recovered from the disastrous results of Car­michael's devised deviltry, it behooves all people of good will to endeavor to restore the amity and mutual respect between all its people, for which Nashville bas established an enviable reputation.

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Planning To Establish Party In Nashville, Zagarell Says

By DOUG LOONEY An attempt is under way

to establish a Communist party organization m ·Nash­ville, a national party offi­cial said here today

Mike Zagarell, youth director or the party in tlle United Slates, said he was "very im­pressed' with the interest of students'' during his visit so far.

"lt is not the primary pur­po~e o£ the visJt to organize a club m Nashville," Zagarell said, ''but our pl~ns include -SI~fl Photos by Charles W'rr~n

building up the Communist Four miuutes later, Zagarell 's sprcch is halted by the party in many cities. walkout u( ahout 201\ members uf th(' audience, carrying

"Nashville is included:" .\merit' an Flags a nd singing patriotic songs. Zagarell, At vu afler being interrupted h) tht walkout, started his speech

Zagal'ell \\ill speak at 7:30 O\ er again. P·n:'· Lo_day on the Vande,rbill Then he got i.Qlo a car driven turned to the ..§.S.Q£. house. Umvennty campus al :'>lPel)' by Frank sutherland, reporter Several o£ the group got out o[ Auditorium. for the Nashv1lle Tennessean. the vehicle al the SSOC house.

Immediately follo\\oing l h e. and went to Rand Hall on the Zagarell was then accompanied press con"fcrence, he went lo the Vanderbilt University campus. by a young man and woman. to

Upon leaving the campus, the James A. Cayce . housmg southern Student Organizing Zagarell and his small group project m East Nashv11le. Tbe Committee headquarters. 1703 got in a stationwagon whose trio entered an apartment. Portland Me., for an hour's license was listed to Donald F. discussion with 12 sludent.:s.:.· __.J~B_o_n_e_r..:.., _2_sz_7_C_ru_z_e_n_S_l_ .• _a_n_d_r_e· __________________ _ -Stair Photo bv Jack Gunl~r

Communist 1\ti.ke Zagarell speaks at a press confer· ence.

* * * * * * Reds Exploiting You11g

People, Hoover Charges By FRANK VANDER J.JNnE~

--~------------ Wasllingt4o Bur-eau•Cbicf Washington-FBI Director J . Edgar Hoover has

warned Congress of the increasing number of Commu­msts invited to speak to draft-age audiences at college campuses where they invanably "hit hard at the Unit ed States for its role in the Vietnam War' ' and falsely present the Commumst party as devoted to liberty

Hoover told a House appro- r------------' p r i a t i o n s subcommittee, in closed-door tesllmony released~.;...::;..;;_,...;;~:::.;::.:.::;_;.;;;..,.;.::.~=~ today, that "there are those who an exposmg p1·opagan a an say it is p1·opcr and fitting ior Rrovagandlsts. Others ~e ~~t. the Communists to present their I ill'; ts the dangerous tWog. views before student groups. The FBI direcLor also told th~

"We all believe in aeodemlc committee t h a t Black Power freedom but this does not grant leader. Stokely Carmichael b_ad license to delibt>rately 'p1·es1mt been m f1·equen~. contact. w1tb dist~rtions or (i,Jsehoods. Com· Max Stanford, f1eld cba~rman

unists are not obli atcd ---or: for L b e Revolutionary Action v or er e k r Movement (RAM> "a highly se­

teU the truth," lloover cret all-Negro, Marx:ir.t-Leninist . Chinese Communist oriented or-

ganization . . . RAM advocates\ guerilla warfare to obblin ita goals."

o\her r~:marks made by Hoover ...

"unforLunnlcly. some civil nl(ht.s leaders b.ave condoned civil disobedience" nnd he singl~d out Dr. King who said at C~!cago: "l t may be ncces~;ary to engage in sucb acts

"Such a course of adion is f1·aught with dange1· for if everyone ~ook it upon himself to break a ny law thaL he believed was morally unjust, il is readily apparent there would soon be complet.<: ~:huos in this country;' Hoover said. .

Mr. H oover also ,,ointed out "For years it bas been Communist pol icy to charge 'police bnttaliLy' in a calculated campaign t<J disct·edit law enforcement and to accentuate racial issues."

In Curr·cnl ~olle~iale "Seareh For The 1'ruth'

Zagarell Wasn't Much Help At Vanderbilt University

l nt- current collegiate .. search for the truth" ran up a fatrly blmd alley Tue~da) m,t!ht when :\11 ke Zagarell. \altonal Youth Dtrector of the ( ommunist Part) L1 S.A • appeared 111

:\ecly .\udtlonum at Van­derbilt l. nt vcrs1l.\'.

The panlin~ thrrl>l lor a k11UII lvdge O( " Communism from a rl'al Conunumst" wali scarccl} sl11ked by the bumblin~ Z&gardl, t'ilhcr 1n his prepared remark.\; Ol' in lhc subsequent ''quclilton and answer pcrwd." There 11 CH' plenty ol qu!.'slwns. but Za~ardl adroiflv ;lYOJded am r"vt'lalwn or i.is and the Coinmnni~l I'ar·tv ·~ plan" to lillb\ crt the roulh ol the na· lion, cspcciaily lho,e on the collt•ge campusc~

Zagarrll. praised communism and crilicilttd democr·acY for tO minutrlt - de~pite h\O mass \\alknuts during the Tursday night presentation.

"We 11 ill be down here I!"!'Jre and people dO\\ n here will get used to hearing us," Zagarell said.

A mi\lurc of hand clapping and Jeers greeted the 22-year­old ~;peaker. in addition to an estimated 200 persons in the alrdience wa' ing U.S. Flags.

'Why Not Russia?' Foua· minutes into his pre­

llarcd speech, a leader M the Flag-wavers cried, ' 'Wby don't ynu go hack ~ Russia?' '

Replied Zagarell. " I would go back to Russia but I'm not a dtizen and it is very bard."

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Communi:o;i Party. l l.S.A., official Mike Zagar(>1J begins his speech at Vanderbilt trnivrrsit y a rte r beiJ1g introdueed by Bill Fugate_, (left) president of the New Marxist Study Group.

'.Need Socialism' Hopes For Party

Noted ZagareU, "Actually, to solve these problems, Amerl· cans need socialism.•• Be said socialism would "place decision­making in the bands of the peo­ple where it belnort•L ..

He repeated his Tuesday ob­servation that he hopes to build a Communist party organization in Nashville, as well as in many other cities.

"There is as much possibility in Nashville as any other city," be said.

Paie 1 0- ~londay Afternoon, AprillO, 1967

A Courageous And Efficient Job

The Police Know Stokely And They Were Prepared

DESPITE RECENT OVER-ALL abuse from certain segments of the community, the Metropo?tan

Police Department on Saturday and Sunday rughts met crisis with bravery and intelligence.

Stokely Carmichael told the city he was here to create havoc. In his Friday night harangue he at­tacked The Nashville Banner saying: "The Banner says we have come to Nashville to cause trouble. They lie all the time. But this time they tell the truth."

The police knew Carmichael came to bring trou­ble. They knew Jt before be arrived and before be said Jt. They anticipated his plans and were ready. TREY know Stokely Carmichael. THEY know what b1s presence anywhere means. THEY know SNCC.

Saturday afternoon the Vanderbilt gymnasium was saturated with protection, not only for. members of the audience, but for the arrogant, evil-mouthed Black Power speaker as well. As an examf?le1 when a spectator displayed a C~mfed~rate Flag, 1t Jl;lSt so happened that an officer m plam clothes was m !he next seat. He handled the incident quickly and qutet­Iy. Tbe program pro~eeded. without !nterruption ..

However, .not bemg qUtte as natve as Carnu· ehael's academic sponsors, those who direct the police department were well aware that the Van· derbllt applause for Stokely did not ring down the curtain for the weekend performance of his hench­men.

* * .. THE POLICE KNEW that the build-up he had con­

trived to receive from sophomoric adulation just off West End Avenue was a part oi the Black Power pattern.

As Carmichael and his ~oons departed for the Fisk area, two police riot squads were prepared. They had been ready and waiting since Friday mornJng.

So when the SNCC picketers began to play their part in front of the tavern of Jefferson St.---when the crowds gathered and the fury mounted-the po· lice put into effect their long-laid pJans. Streets were blocked. The trap closed. On both sides of the conflict heads were bloodied, property was dam· aged and arson attempted. . .

There was more shooting, burnmg and lootmg Sunday night, bu~ again the lines of au~hority held.

Nashville pollee have done a good )~b-a. cour­ageous job-in the line of duty, to contam th1s spo.­radic rioting and restore law and order. There has been no def~ult on the part of public authorities. There can be no surrender-on any pretext-to mob rule, nor to the insolent ultimatum of outlawry.

85 Police Keep Impact Peaceful

IMPACT '67 went .. without a hltcb" according to Jolm Lea, chabman ~ the security com­mittee.

·~verything went just beauti­tully," he continued. "'Ibe speak­ers and people who attended were extraordlnarily responsible."

In spite ~ worries over pos­sible bomb threats, demonstra­tions and general disorderliness, there was no trouble.

About 85 Metro policemen as­sisted during the symposium, many ~ them as plainclothesmen sit• uated throughout the audience.

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Vllnderbilt Rustler 4-7-67 Martin Luther Kin<i

Serves 'Higher Law

Vanderbilt Hustler

APRIL 7, 1967

By PAUL KURTZ and LEW CODDINGTON

Stokely Pushes Nashville Banner 4-8-67

In a strongly-worded resolution, the Tennessee State Senate yesteroay de­clared that the 85th General Assembly "whoUy disapproves of the wisdom and judgment of the 1~ ACf plalUier.;" in inviting Black Power advocate Stokely Carmichael to speak tomorrow after-

Negro Takeover By DOUG LOONEY N c I

Controversial Stokely Gar- egro 0nh•0 michael called Friday night for 1

Negroes to take over ~ashvi!le Of c.·u·es Seen - from mayor and pohce chief

noon. The resolution, propoced by State

Senator Jerry Agee (D-Nashvtlle), was passed in a voJoe vote with only a few voices raised in opposition. It describes Carmichael, who is scheduled to speak at 3 p.m. tomorrow in Mernoria1 Gym­nasium, as a "dangeJOUS unprincipled demagogue."

on dov.n - by "whatever means Banner

necessary." By Stokely In his characterislic fighting

sty!e, Carmichael told a crowd B DOUG LOONEY estimated at 1,200 at Tennes· Y . see State University: Stokely Carmtchael has pre·

"Your duty is to organize lhese dieted Negroes will control the (Negro) people to take over.,this nation's cities in the near fu­city lock, stock and barrel. • • ture because of the "white rush

He repeated his contention N to suburbia." groes should not participate ir In a Saturday .aftern.oon !ld· the Vietnam War, saying, "Le dress. at Vanderbilt Uruverst~y, the honkies bomb. We're goin~ Camuchael attempted to clarify to stay here and watch." what he means by his "Black

Asked by a person in the audi Power" concept. ence what be suggested Ne But he led off his talk be­groes do or say concerning the fore the estimated 4,000 persons

Speaking in New York Oil April war, Carmichael replied, "Sa' at the Impact Symposium by 4, Dr. ~ had ealled tbe United hell no. • attacking THE NASHVILLE States "tbe greatest purveyor of "I say it's better to go t< BANNER. violence in the world today" be- jail." ''Let me tell THE BANNER " cause of lts involvement in the Also during Lhe question ses- the militant Negro said "lh~t Vietnam war. When asked about sion, he said Negroes "cannot the days of white people' telling his position on the Vietnam sltua- obey Jaws that are meant to black people who to invite to tlon, King explained, "We are the keep you down. !heir campuses to speak are aggressors. • .our bandsarecHrty "I say to hell wilh l hose over." ••• I feel that I must speak out laws." He was referring to the re-"'-'"""t this war." f 1 Fi _ ..... .., During a lengthy question and usa of sk and Tennessee

"The United States is be~ in- answer period Carmichael de· State University administrations fluenced by a negative fear of fined Black Po~vcr as " the com- to sanction his appearances at communlsm instead of a positive ing togelher of black people to lthe schools last week. belief in democracy. fight for their liberation by any Altho~ he deyoted consid·

"It is necessary for us to rise means necessary." lerable time to his complaints ::~nget ~ ~~ U: s~t :;~~ ' 'You need power lo counter~ct ~~atsf t the paperb, he. noted,

d against you Vtc· u e us not e disturbed ica. The United $ltes must take tpoJ.DlwSe(ro?fne).usticcs> shou.ld. never, about THE, BANNER,. the inltiative in creating an at- f I L N mospbere for negotiation. ever· apologize for thetr use 0 eave ow

"Our nation's standards should violence. "The hankies (whites) of THE be the moral example for tbe In other ooservations, Car- BANNER c~ now leave ~

ld ,. m.Pha lzed King michael: ~cause you will not even begm wor • e

8 • • Called f 0 r m e r President to compr~end the lecture I am

A e:usrauteed ammalln<lome,ac· Eisenhower "a dumb honky." ~~'Yuotuto g!ve.lh 1

t . rd · fo b ld see, e ec ure IS on co 1ng to King, IS necessary r a • Asked why Negroes s o.u an intellectual love! ,

comolete ellmlnation of· poverty. "pick up a gun, .go 8,000 miles He told his audien~e Washing­a~~ shoot a V1etname~e wh~ on, D. C., and Newark, N.J.,

APRIL 11, am t never called you a rugger. re "already over 50 per cent Vanderbilt Hustler Negroes"