U.S. NEGRO, PUERTO RICAN RIGHTS EFFORTS COMPARED

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06436382
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: March 16, 2022
• Document Release Date: March 1, 2016
• Case Number: F-2015-02440
• Publication Date: January 26, 1967

Approved for Release: 2016/02/11 C06436382
26 January 1967
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U.S. NEGRO, PUERTO RICAN RIGHTS EFFORTS COMPARED
Havana in Spanish to the Americas 1200 MT 25 January 1967--E
(Text) The U.S Negro leader Stokeley Carmichael said in San Juan, Puerto Rico,
that there is a close relationship of the U.S Negro citizens
and the Puerto Rican independence movement. -Stokeley Carmichael, leader of the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the United States, is in San Juan
to take part in an event organized by the university federation of the Puerto
Rican Pro-Independence Movement (MPI).
Carmichael said. U S. Negroes are a colony within the United States, just as you
Puerto Ricans are a colony outside continental America. After expressing support
for the just struggle which Vietnam is waging against Yankee imperialism, the U S
Negro leader said: We are told that we go to fight in Vietnam for a so-called
democracy, but we know the hypocrisy of that statement. "We have experienced,"
he added, "with our bodies and our own blood what this so-called U.S democracy
means."
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