African Dashikis and guerrilla-style fatigues set the sartorial tone and tough radicalism dominated the rhetoric last week when 350 delegates to the First National Black Economic Conference met in Detroit. First they ejected white news men. Then they rejected capitalism for a socialist state for Negroes. Within this brave new world, young Negroes would spurn such "dead end" and "status quo" jobs as driving trucks, delivering mail or repairing television sets.
What would take up the slack and yet provide the proper status? Economics Professor Robert Browne of Fairleigh Dickinson University had both a grievance and an ingenious thought. As...
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