American Negroes: On the Verge of Revolution?

Is it correct to speak of “race rebellion,” or “Negro rebellion”? Are America’s Negroes on the verge of revolution? More than one newspaper and television commentator has already begun to draw comparisons between the ghetto uprisings and the French, Russian, Algerian, Irish, and Black African independence revolutions. Some Black Power advocates have proclaimed the beginnings of guerrilla warfare and see the urban Negro as a counterpart to the Vietcong…

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