When H. Rap Brown was in diapers and Stokely Carmichael a three-year-old toddler, a group of fledgling Negro flyers shattered tradition in an unsuccessful attempt to integrate the all-white officers' club at Selfridge Field near Detroit. That was in 1944. Last week a veteran of that long-ago sit-in challenged today's hot gospelers of Black Power.
"I resent Stokely setting himself up as a spokesman for Negroes," boomed Daniel ("Chappie") James Jr., 47, now a full colonel and the U.S. Air Force's hottest Negro combat pilot. "That s.o.b. is leading too many kids astray. Under the guise of civil rights, some people set...
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