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“NOW, IN PHASE TWO—”
Reacting to African American student activists who push for segregation, despite having only recently won the protections offered by civil rights legislation, Herblock took their demands to what he believed was an illogical extreme. As the black power movement escalated, some African American university students sought programs tailored solely to their interests. Some groups, including the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and the Black Panthers, increasingly focused on African American autonomy. More conservative African American leaders urged against their militancy and decried their desire for segregation.
“Now, in Phase Two—,” 1969. Published in the Washington Post, March 7, 1969. |