SUPPORTERS FOR POWELL
‘Black Power’ Promises Aid
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) NEW YORK, March 12.
The black power advocate, Mr Stokely Carmichael, joined with the ousted Congressman, Mr Adam Clayton Powell, in the Bahamian island of Bimini yesterday and said his supporters would do all in their power to see Powell reelected.
“They say the issue is not racialism. But the black power people are too smart to faR for that garbage,” Mr Carmichael said. He is the head of the Student Non-violent Co-ordi-nating Committee. Mr Powell was ousted from Congress, where he represented Harlem, on March 1. A new election has been scheduled for April 11 and Mr Powell is expected to win easily over his probable opponent, Mr James Meredith, the first Negro to have attended the University of Mississippi. Mr Powell has already been promised the support of <he Congress of Racial Equality, whose leader, Mr Floyd McKissick, travelled to Bimini also.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31317, 13 March 1967, Page 13
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