The Negro Movement: Where Shall It Go Now?

The Negro Movement: Where Shall It Go Now?

We print below a condensed transcript of a discussion held in May 1964 between a number of leading figures in the Civil Rights Movement and several editors of DISSENT. Among the participants: Bayard Rustin, organizer of the March on Washington and perhaps the single outstanding leader to have appeared in the movement these past few years; Norman Hill, National Program Director of CORE; Tom Kahn, assistant to Rustin in the March on Washington and author of “Problems of the Negro Movement...


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