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CONTENTS

Editor's Notes . . . . . 4
Blueprint For An Open Society
Edward W. Brooke, 5
Attorney General,
Massachusetts

Symposium
"The Meaning
and Measure of Black Powe"

Julian Bond . . . . . 20
Eugene Walton . . . . . 21
Anita R. Cornwell . . . . . 22
Conrad Kent Rivers . . . . . 23
Sterling Stuckey . . . . . 24
Brooks Johnson . . . . . 25
Francis Ward . . . . . 26
Nathan Hare . . . . . 27
Eloise Greenfield . . . . . 28
Ronald L. Fair . . . . . 29
Dudley Randall . . . . . 30
John O. Killens . . . . . 31

Special Article
One Jew Looks At Black Power
Howard N. Meyer 38

Humor
Creeping Equality Must Be Crushed
John Keefauver 42

Epic Poem
To The Gallant Black Men Now Dead
Dr. Vincent Harding 54

Fiction
Will The Circle Be Unbroken?. Henry Dumas 76

Regular Features
Perspectives (Notes on books, writers, artists and
the arts), 49-52—Humor in Hue, 46—Poetry, 48
—On Record, 47.

NEGRO DIGEST November 1966

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NOVEMBER 1966
VOL. XVI NO. 1

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