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Black National-
Secretariat develop program for Revolutionary
ists .
13 . Develop two Revolutionary Centers . 16
The impact of the conference was such that the Nashville Student Movement
bought Dr . King to Nashville the weekend of the ASM conference . During
his speech, Dr . King attacked the conference as "hate in reverse ." 17
From the conference BLF-RAM organizers went into the
south to work
with SNCC . With the permission of SNCC chairman John Lewis, an experimental
black nationalist self-defense project was started in Greenwood,
Mississippi .
I
discussion with the Mississippi field staff of SNCC, BLF-RAM organizers
found the staff was prepared to establish a state-wide armed selfdefense
system . They were also prepared to move in an all-black national
ist direction . All that was needed was money to finance the project . 18
In the meantime, Monthly Review published an article titled, "The Colonial
War at Home," which included most of Stanford's Correspondence article,
"Toward a Revolutionary Action Movement," edited with some of Malcoim's
remarks, and excerpts from Robert Williams' "Revolution Without Violence" 19
The article was discussed by the majority of the SNCC field staff .
SNCC was polarized between black and white organizers and
between left and
right ing forces within SNCC .
16 Revolutionary Nationalist , Volume 1, November l, Summer, 1965 .
17 Sister R . taped interview, October l, 1978, Washington, D .C .
18 J~mes Foreman, The Making of Black Revolutionaries . (New York : Macmillan
Co ., 1972), p . 374 .
19" he Colonial War At Home," Monthly Review ., Vol . 17, No . 1 . May,
1964, 0 . 2 .