‘Refuse To Fight’
(N.Z P A Reuter) DETROIT, July 31. A militant Negro civil rights leader suggested last night that Negroes refuse to fight in Vietnam. Mr Stokely Carmichael, president of the Student Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee and an advocate of “black power,” told a meeting: “We ought
Committee and an advocate of “black power,” told a meeting: “We ought
to tell everyone *we aren’t going to fight your damned war’.” He declared that "this country has reduced us to the point that they (the whites) can say our only way out is to become a hired killer in the army.” He added: “I say stay right here—and fight right here.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31126, 1 August 1966, Page 11
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