State, how the United States was world that people would hear about and read about and the fact that there seemed to be a lot of episodes that kept happening, whether as lunching or some kind of discrimination taking place in the country. So the idea was, as eisenhower said he slammed the table is inside those are the facts. The commission has been out, there is a tough problem that people dont want to do anything about it. So they get a report on it goes away. But this commission is supposed to put the facts on top of the table and then its future would depend on what i found out, how aggressive it was and what the public thought about what they were doing. Said this was initially set up as a temporary commission . Just go right it came the year before the little rock crisis. But the ferment going on in the country, it was to defuse part of the christ is an present a better image of the country to the world that if im the way they could recommend some solutions, that would be great. H
Mary Frances Berry on booktv on cspan 2. Im sure youre more familiar with malcolm knox. At that time, he was always supposedly the man in favor of violence. That wasnt the issue. He did support the right of armed selfdefense, but he didnt promote progressive violence. Malcolm x said power against power. We are not going to convince the right segregationists to accept. We have to build our own four saves until they have no choice but to recognize their demands and thats power. And he called this black nationalism. He built a whole ideology about it. Thats black pride. It meant economies of black communities, the northern ghetto, so to speak should be run by blacks instead of absentee white owners. He believes Community Control of schools. So yes, he believes in black autonomy. Hes not an integrationist as such and he said its up to us, it is our struggle. Taylor branch, author of the multivolume, america in the king years presents his thoughts on key moments in the Civil Rights Movement
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