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~ \ RE; cn ~~ care en STOKELY CARMICHAEL | conrayer ta te accused Negroes who serve in the United States armea forces of being *black merc snaries-~people who fight for a.country and do not.enjoy the rights of that _ country. "tBlack people are off fighting for the right to ~ | vote for people in Viet Nam, but when they come back » they haven't got the right to vote in Louisiana, Miss- issippi, Texas Georgia, Alabama and Washington, D.C." © "tA black mercenary goes to Viet Nam and gets shot and when they bring him home they won't bury him in his own home town.' "twetye got to get the strength so when’ they ask us to fight their war, we can say, ‘Hell, no."' ee oan Pr "On the subject of non-violence, which has been extensively debated since the ‘black power’ slogan was uttered, Carmichael said: metye got to get nonviolent among ourselves first. We've got to move so we don't cut each other up on Friday nights. We've got to say to our young people, “tyou're shooting and cutting up the wrong people.‘'" The Chicago “Tribune” newspaper, July 29, 1966, issue carried an article on Page 9, Section lgntitled "Defends Black Power Slogan", which is set forth ver batum as it ap- peared: "parley to Define It, Civil Rights Leader Says "The slogan "black power’. is a concern only of the Negro and only he has a right to define it, Stokely — Carmichael, national chairman of the Student Nonviolent © “Coordinating committee, said here yesterday in announcing a national conference to define the term and form a co-~ alition of civil rights leaders. ; "Speaking at a press conference in the offices of the Oakland Committee for Community Improvement, 3939 Drexel :: bivd., Carmichael attacked what he called ‘the white —- press' distortions in attempting to define “black power"’, and said he has called a meeting of all civil rights