
Recently the SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center) has called for the murder cases of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney to be reopened. So many have gone unchallenged calling these three “heroes.” But William McIlhany’s Klandestine details that Michael Schwerner, a Jewish New Yorker, dreamed of starting a race war in Mississippi that might bring advancement to the “civil rights” struggle. Schwerner was a key leader for “civil rights” in Mississippi.
One operation of the “Freedom Summer” campaign was the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), an extra-legal political movement to send black delegates to the Democratic National Convention of 1964. The MFDP distributed a pamphlet in Jackson and Hinds County advocating riots and guerrilla warfare against whites, saying this:
In this country we have seen that four summers of riots or rebellions have produced more results than ten long years of nonviolence.
The $30,000 Youth Opportunities Recreation Plan came to Hinds County after the Lynch Street riot, but the nonviolent boycott has brought us nothing.
We must get together secretly and in small groups. Planning and discipline are supremely important to every serious fighter. The snipers in Detroit and Newark showed how effective planning and guerrilla tactics can be. Many times one sniper shooting from the rooftops could pin 20-40 policemen or National Guardsmen down and this allowed other people to save their lives.
This is the beginning. This is an example of the 10 for 1 and 1 for 10 idea. If we want to save black lives in Jackson and Hinds County, Mississippi, we must learn from these examples.
In South Africa and the Congo, black freedom fighters have put aside nonviolence. Among all the guerrilla fighters, the Viet Cong are guerrilla fighters. Stokely Carmichael and Rap Brown and Robert Williams of the Revolutionary Movement have all declared that black people in America need to become guerrillas also. Each guerrilla should capture or kill ten people.
