Stokely Carmichael: “Black Power”

Glossary

• Berkeley the University of California at Berkeley, the flagship campus of the University of California system
• Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and a Socialist
• Bobby Kennedy Robert Kennedy, the U.S. attorney general and brother of President John F. Kennedy
• Brown Governor Edmund G. “Pat” Brown of California
• Camus Albert Camus, a French intellectual whose name is connected with the absurdist movement
• Dr. King Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Eastland James Eastland, a conservative U.S. senator from Mississippi
• Frantz Fanon a writer, philosopher, and revolutionary who was born in Martinique and whose books were key documents in the anticolonial movement
• Frederick Douglass the preeminent abolitionist during the nineteenth century
• Gestapo the official secret police of Nazi Germany
• Head Start, Upward Lift, Bootstrap, and Upward Bound all programs designed to provide educational and economic opportunities for the poor
• Ho Chi Minh the leader of Communist North Vietnam
• Jim Clark the sheriff of Dallas County, Alabama, who authorized the violent assaults and arrests of activists during the Selma-to-Montgomery march of 1965
• Lady Bird Johnson the wife of President Lyndon Johnson
• Lyndon Baines Johnson the U.S. president from 1963 to 1969
• McNamara Robert McNamara, U.S. secretary of defense
• Peace Corps an international volunteer program run by the U.S. government
• Reagan Ronald Reagan, who would become governor of California in 1967 and, later, president of the United States
• Rockefeller Nelson Rockefeller, the governor of New York and heir to the Standard Oil fortune
• Ross Barnett an earlier segregationist governor of Mississippi
• Rusk Dean Rusk, the U.S. secretary of state under Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson
• Santo Domingo the capital of the Dominican Republic
• Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre, a French existentialist and Communist who opposed French rule in Algeria
• Sheriff Rainey Lawrence Rainey, sheriff of Neshoba County, Mississippi, referring to the murder in 1964 of three civil rights workers through the collusion of local law enforcement agencies and the Ku Klux Klan
• SNCC the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a civil rights organization
• thalidomide a drug given to pregnant women that turned out to cause severe birth defects
• 2S II-S, a draft classification that deferred military service for students
• Wallace George Wallace, the segregationist governor of Alabama
• Wayne Morse a U.S. senator from Oregon who was one of only two U.S. senators to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, deepening U.S. involvement in Vietnam