Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

The following year, SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael gave an inflammatory speech at Seattle’s de facto segregated Garfield High in front of a crowd of 4,000, calling for black people to resist the draft. “So you tell them they better be happy with Dr. King, ’cause when some of us get guns, we know who we going to kill,” he told the crowd. “Our guts and blood have been spilt for this country and we go to the worst schools this country can produce! We who have spilt our guts and blood for this country. Our guts and our bloods have been spilt for this country, it’s time we spill them for our people.”