Mar 30, 2017 - Sale 2441

Sale 2441 - Lot 275

Price Realized: $ 292
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
BLACK STRUGGLE WHITE PATERNALISM (CIVIL RIGHTS--SNCC.) [CARMICHAEL, STOKELY] The Vine City Project Paper on "Whites in the Movement." Nine pages, typed on rectos and versos, creases where folded; some very light toning. Np, circa 1967-68

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a rare insight into a real problem within the civil rights movement, probably written by stokely carmichael. Vine City is a large section of Atlanta. White participation in the black man's struggle has always been a significant issue among African American leadership. Things were not much different in the 19th century when white abolitionist's struggled to control a movement that would benefit the black man. Frederick Douglass encountered this sort of paternalism in Boston on his return from England, and his move to Rochester was prompted by it. The author of this "white paper" cites "The inability of whites to relate to the cultural aspects of Black society; attitudes that whites consciously or unconsciously bring to Black communities about themselves (western superiority) and about Black people (paternalism)." An important paper laying out some of the issues that did in fact put a wedge between white leadership and black leadership in the years following the disastrous 1968 Democratic convention.