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Applauds the development of African American political power in Lowndes County, Alabama by establishing the Lowndes County Freedom Organization political party through grassroots organizing and mobilization. Social conditions of African Americans; Role of the Black Panther in organizing the party; Obstacles to integrating Democrats with African Americans in Lowndes.

Provides information on Washington, D. C. as a lost colony still surviving on the American continent. Discussion on the population of the state and its apartheid residential pattern; Percentage of middle-class African Americans residing in abject poverty and total deprivation in the state, according to a report released by the National Capital Planning Commission in April 1966; Failure of the United Planning Organization, a local anti-poverty agency, to find more jobs and better housing for poor people; Benefits and advantages of foreign politicians, entrepreneur and governors-in-residence in the state, such as low taxes, services for themselves, franchises, and contracts; Contribution and influence of Congressman John L. McMillan, chairman of the House Committee in the District of Columbia, on the economic and political system of the state.

Commends the poor African Americans for managing preschool programs and attendant adult action programs in communities throughout Mississippi through the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM) under the Project Head Start grant from the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO). Components of the CDGM that could help in developing the communities; Harassment experienced by sharecroppers who registered their children for a Head Start center; Role of U.S. Representative John Bell Williams (D-Miss.) in attacking the Head Start program and CDGM; Resistance put up by CDGM staff against the demand of OEO to move its headquarter from Mount Beulah to West Point.

Offers a look on the alleged participation of Communists in the activities of the civil rights movement in the U.S. Criticism regarding the evolution of civil rights to radicalism; Overview of the efforts of Alabama Governor George Corley Wallace to discredit the civil rights movement; Participation of African Americans in radical activities.

The article focuses on the murder of Carol Stuart in Boston, Massachusetts. The murdered is now attributed to her husband, Chuck Stuart. When Charles Stuart described a black man as the murderer, the white authorities in Boston sent a small army of occupation into the black neighborhoods. Police invaded the housing projects of Mission Hill, knocking down doors, bursting into apartments, slamming and insulting residents. Young black men were stopped, searched and detrousered on the street for no cause more reasonable than their skin color.

The article focuses on Godkin Lectures, an occasion endowed in 1903 by friends of E.L. Godkin, a founder and first editor of this journal, that was held at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, a multi-modular Lego set of a building, where the rich and famous of the political establishment sometimes spend their holidays studying the lifestyles of the poor and powerless. At the lecture the U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, revived the thesis about poverty that propounded in "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action," a report he prepared for former U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson twenty years ago. That document was a nodal point in social policy-making in postwar United States. It identified the poverty class as a black Lumpenproletariat, created by the strictures of slavery and perpetuated by a "domineering" matriarchy. The locus of poverty was not the economic system, the political hierarchy or institutional racism, as various scholars and activists had claimed, but the "pathological" fatherless black family.

Highlights the efforts of the Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee (SNCC) to promote human rights of African Americans in the U.S. as of January 1967. Success of SNCC in developing a new culture of being African Americans; Factors which deter the group from realizing their objectives; Outlook of African American activist and SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael towards white supremacy.

Argues that Phoenix in Arizona has shed its myth of a city founded on frontier spirit and Christian capitalism to reveal its economic failure, political underdevelopment and social naivete. Reason for the defeat of propositions providing social services and educational facilities with state bonds; Social condition of African Americans and other ethnic groups in the city's South side; Role of conservatives in preventing urban renewal; Criticism against the state government.

Describes the civil rights demonstration from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in March 1965. Description made by Dr. Martin Luther King on the demonstration; Purpose of the campaign that had been accomplished; Most impressive part of the demonstration; Impact of the demonstration on the Negroes of Selma.

Discusses the campaign to save the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM), a combination Head Start preschool system and community action program, from politics, parsimony, racism and bureaucracy. Concern shown by the Office of Economic Opportunity regarding the efforts of CDGM to involve the poor; State politicians who want to control the rate of speed at which African Americans attain political power through CDGM; Governmental investigation of the accounts and operations of CDGM; Problems encountered by CDGM regarding grants and funding.

Comments on the planning efforts and sessions of the U.S. administration for issues involving civil rights in the U.S. Skepticism on the will of the administration to act on civil rights issues involving the African Americans; Appointment of Morris Abram, president of the American Jewish Committee and delegate to the U.N. Human rights Commission, and African American lawyer William T. Coleman Jr. as co-chairmen of the committee formed by the administration for the conferees planning; Discussion on the stand and opposition of several conferences on various civil rights issues and legislation proposals.

Presents information on voting rights of the African Americans. View that the voting rights bill is a fair attempt to let Southern African Americans participate in the democratic process; Opinion that the existence of Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) is unsettling to conservative civil rights groups; Role of MFDP in encouraging rural Mississippians to participate in the civil rights movement.