Development Arrested by Clyde Woods

Author:Clyde Woods
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Verso Books

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Poor People and the Freedom Blues

The Black Power slogan did not spring full grown from the head of some philosophical Zeus. It was born from the wounds of despair and disappointment. It is a cry of daily hurt and persistent pain … It is no accident that the birth of this slogan in the civil rights movement took place in Mississippi—the state symbolizing the most blatant abuse of white power. In Mississippi the murder of civil rights workers is still a popular pastime. In that state more than forty Negroes and whites have been murdered over the past three years, and not a single man has been punished for these crimes. More than fifty Negro churches have been burned or bombed in Mississippi in the last two years, yet the bombers still walk the streets surrounded by a halo of adoration. This is white power in its most brutal, cold-blooded, and vicious form.

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr, 19671

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