Races: The Road to Hell

After five months of jetting around the world, Black Power Proselyter Stokely Carmichael announced last week in Sweden that his journey is about to end. "I shall return to hell," he declared. "That is, to the United States."

Instead, he jetted to Paris, where he was held up for 17 hours at the airport as an "undesirable foreigner" until Charles de Gaulle himself ordered that "Car-michel," as he is called in France, be granted entrance; he was issued a three-month visa. Within hours, the quondam chairman of the misnamed Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee...

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