The Vine City Project Paper on "Whites in the Movement"

The Vine City Project Paper on "Whites in the Movement"

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GLC#
GLC09642
Type
Documents
Date
1967
Title
The Vine City Project Paper on "Whites in the Movement"
Place Written
Atlanta, Georgia
Pagination
9 p. : Height: 29 cm, Width: 22.5 cm

Vine City is a large section of Atlanta. This paper concerns white people's participation in the struggle for equal rights, which has always been a significant issue among African American leadership. The author of this "white paper" cites "The inability of whites to relate to the cultural aspects of Black society; attitudes that whites consciously or unconsciously bring to Black communities about themselves (western superiority) and about Black people (paternalism)." This paper continues and lays out some of the issues that formed a wedge between white leadership and black leadership in the years following the 1968 Democratic convention. This work was most likely written by Stokely Carmichael a civil rights leader in Atlanta along with other members of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee or SNCC.

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