Volume 4, Number 1 · February 11, 1965
The Need for Negro Politics
By Laura Carper
The Seeds of Destruction
by Thomas Merton
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 328 pp., $4.95
SNCC: The New Abolitionists
by Howard Zinn
Beacon, 246 pp., $4.95
My Face Is Black
by C. Eric Lincoln
Beacon, 137 pp., $3.50
Who Speaks for the South
by James McBride Dabbs
Funk & Wagnalls, 416 pp., $5.95
The final test of our political morality is not our moral posture but our political program and our readiness to discuss and solve political problems. The moral and religious rhetoric of many recent books on the race crisis is not a serious contribution to the critical problem the civil rights movement faces in establishing itself on firm political ground. This is a problem the Negro leadership has failed to resolve. The white liberal, whose major contribution could have been to give the Negroes a political direction, and the white radical whose contribution could have been a heightened political consciousness have been of little help. Delighting in their own moral regeneration through participation in the movement they have virtually betrayed that movement through a failure to develop an adequate program.
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