d-mo

Updated: May 13, 2025

After submitting a list of their demands to President Nixon, their spokesman, Representative William Clay, D-Mo., said: "We are going to set the tone for the black liberation struggle in this country.... Black people in this country have no permanent friends, no permanent enemies, only permanent interests.... I think we've reached the point in black America where we've completely given up on the mass demonstrations, sit-ins and boycotts.

Norman Coombs - The Black Experience in America