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Mr Carmichael, do you see any change in atmosphere in the South? Do you think that we are approaching amore militant or revolutionary stage in the civil rights movement in the South? Yes, I certainly think so. I think we're moving now into a political arena. And I

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think that what Negroes are now tampering in what they're tampering with will touch the entire country to be very precise. For example, many Negroes were registered to vote have been evicted from their lands in Lawrence County. People who have worked on plantations for 35 40 years

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because they're registered to vote have been evicted. So that raises a philosophical question not only for us, but for the whole country. Can property less people be made as equal AST's property owners through the vote? Do you think the formation of your party, the Black Panther

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Party, is perhaps contributing to the change in atmosphere and making it, in fact, more explosive? Yes, I certainly think so, because this is the first time in the country that Negroes will be organized for their own political interest and they will form their own party and

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move along those interests as they see fit. It is unlike Negroes across the country who are registered in the Democratic Party. But I'm not organized for their own interest. Now, what I don't understand is this You are also a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

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At the same time, you are organizing a group in the South which almost certainly will tend to contribute to violence or at least counter violence. Well, they won't contribute to violence. They will just be seeking their political rights and they will have to defend those rights.

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Now they will defend it the way the country defends its own rights. The way we defended in Vietnam, the way we defended it in World War Two, the way we defend in World War One, the way they were going to defend it in Dominican Republic, I

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imagine they will defend it the same way violently.