TY - JOUR
AU - Tomlinson, T. M.
AB -  Office of Economic Opportunity, Washington, D.C. In August, 1965, the date of the Los Angeles riot, most Negro militants did not fulfill the criteria necessary to be identified as a formal political group. They did not have and did not belong to organizations having a systematic political ideology, nor did they have any articulated programs for social change. The NAACP was and remains conservative, and SNCC was publicly identified as a biracial group whose announced purpose was the political organization of Negro residents in the rural South. The Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) and the Black Panthers had not been heard from, and most of the currently popular local nationalist groups were nonexistent. In the main, those blacks who are now called radical were simply militantly-i.e., vigorously and aggressively-pro-Negro; their militance lay in their endorsement of Negro action that served to provide an image of black strength against white society. In the eyes of most black and white citizens, the Black Muslims were the only exponents of black radicalism. And in 1965 this was the only such organization receiving national attention 'This essay was a 1969 co-winner of the second annual Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize, made possible by 
TI - Ideological Foundations for Negro Action: A Comparative Analysis of Militant and Non‐militant Views of the Los Angeles Riot
JF - Journal of Social Issues
DO - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1970.tb01282.x
DA - 1970-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/ideological-foundations-for-negro-action-a-comparative-analysis-of-3LlAvCIr4F
SP - 93
VL - 26
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -