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Brown Tests the Limit of Free Speech
SNCC's new chairman, H. Rap Brown, alienated moderate supporters by urging black people wage war against white America. In a July speech in Cambridge, Md., Brown famously cried, "If America don't come around, we're going to burn it down!" Tensions erupted that night between black residents and white police. A school was set ablaze, and Brown was charged with arson and inciting a riot. But to SNCC supporters, Brown's multiple arrests were attempts by authorities to suppress his free speech. |