Black Power, written in collaboration with Charles V. Hamilton, carries the following biographical note:
"STOKELY CARMICHAEL was born in Trinidad and grew up there, in New York City, and in Washington, D.C. He attended the Bronx High School of Science and received a bachelor's degree from Howard University in 1964. While at Howard he was active in student government as well as in the local civil rights organization, the Nonviolent Action Group. Mr. C chael has worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee almost since its inception in 1960. He has been arrested more than fifteen times while participating in demonstrations in Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Maryland, Virginia, and New York. Before his election as chairman of SNCC in May 1966, he helped organize the Lowndes County Freedom Organization in Alabama, and played a major role in the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project as director of civil rights activities in the Second Congressional District. Since the expiration of his term as SNCC chairman, Mr. Carmichael has been active in Black Power liberation activities in both North and South, with primary emphasis on ghetto organizing in Washington, D.C."
In referring to "expeditions" orga~ nized from the North, Buchanan may have had in mind the "pilgrimage" which James Meredith began June 5, 1966, only to be shot in the back from ambush the following day by a racist-minded white. Carmichael, as well as other prominent Afro- Americans, immediately took up the challenge and continued the pilgrimage. They gained national and international recognition for their courage as the progress of their march was reported daily in the mass communications media. It was on this march that Carmichael's advocacy of "Black Power," and the symbol of the Black Panther, became world famous.
But if this was what Buchanan had in mind, he was doubly in error, for Meredith was attending Columbia University at the time, not Harvard.
DAK TO -- "A FAMOUS VICTORY"
While the battle of Dak To raged, the U.S. capitalist press, TV and radio whooped it up as a "