Volume 13, Number 1 · July 10, 1969
The Black Manifesto
By Murray Kempton
The full text of The Manifesto of the Black National Economic Conference has not until now appeared in any national publication. It deserves to be printed not for the chance that it will alter our present history but with the hope that it can illuminate it. We speak of it generally as James Forman's demand for $500 million from the churches as reparations for the black community, and pretty fairly so as such summaries go: Forman created the Black Manifesto and is the coup de théâtre's almost single instrument of its propagation among the communions of the National Council of Churches.
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