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C Conrad Ieii Fanon's Black Power Message Gale Roson Sultiva Wins Posthumous Tavel HOO?! Hohmee Attention in Martiniaue Gandy By Joel Vinocur to name a street atter Fanon There is the possibility, in away and then they just argue FORT DE FRANCE, Marti. his brotmer 'says. Now a hospit- Martinique for a young Negro :and complain. Those people al may dedicate a wing to his with a French university de- nique (AP)-France has don't want to burn down the as memory. gree to step immediately into much as rehabilitated its own The change has to do with! institutions that pay for their the upper-income, manage- Black Power man-possibly in France's new attitude that! ment level of local society. motorboats." the belief he represents more Martinique is its "good' island Fanon himself, his brother "If someone says Martinique trouble for the United States in the Caribhean-a bright said, was able to make $4000 a! is colonialism's greatest suc- than he ever could here. piece of confetti whose 300,000 month after his return to the cess, then he has a strong ar. It is a posthunous return to Negroes are absorbed in the island from medical school in! grace for Frantz Fanon, a kind pursuit of motor bikes, cars, Paris. his club, the all-Negro Cercle of intellectualChe Guevara, television sets and outboard "Frantz was revolted by the Martiniquais. Its wrought iron who left his native Marti- motors, rather than in revolt. idea," he said. "Many others- door is embossed with the ini- nique, renounced Erenahaiti- Its."bad" island is Guade- teachers, Iawyers-zare..tog, at zenshiana>preached a global loupe, 35 mnutes away by-jet, firsthut that oftenfades caise: freyolt nt_hlacks against white wher... racia] tensions..eco rule. nomic problems and a slrong His most important book, Communist Party make the "The Wretched of the Earth, government nervous, White Frenchmen consider was published in France in 1961 and became available in Martinique's Negroes more English in 1966. Its passion ap evolved, more bourgeois, less a risk. pealed to Stokely Carmichael, Ironically, Fanon spoke in a similar who often has quoted it. 15 years ago when he left the is- The Washington Post Fanon called the United land, telling his brother he Iimes Heratd was disgusted with it. inhumanity." Publishers of the "We sickened him," accord- The Washington Daily News book there say its sales have Jately ing to the brother, Felix Ihe Evening Star (Washington! run unusually high Fanon, apablie wotks ofricral. The Sunday Star (Washington) |especially among young He went away Negroes. saying our Daily News New York? But the book originally highest asprfation wase Sunday News (New York) alarmed the French govern- medioere Frenchmen." Fanon closed a medical of- New York Post. ment officials who oversee [this island where Negroes out- fice here in the early 1950s! The New York Times number whites 30 to i. and was posted in Algeria as a French government psyehia- The Sun (Baltimore) Raphael Henri, Fort de 'France's chief librarian, says! Itrist. There he joined the Hhe worker !the originally was rebel movement that won in-] book The New I.cade. banned. "Then, all of a sudden dependence. He later went to Ghana. Stricken with leuke- Ihe Wall Street Journal you could get hold of it," he adds. mia at 36,he was.taken to the lhe National Observer Two years ago, the prefec- United States for treatment People's World ture Marnea down A proposal and died in Washington in 1961. Dat b3 b7E