Manifesto of Revolution.

In May 1969 James Foreman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) presented the "Manifesto to the White Christian Churches and the Jewish Synagogues in the United States of America and All Other Racist Institutions" to the New York meeting of the National Council of Churches. The manifesto, adopted earlier by the National Black Economic Development Conference, was a combination of Marxist ideology and black power rhetoric. As Foreman said in his introduction, the aim was "to bring this [American] government down . . . [and] liberate all the people in the U.S. and . . . the colored people the world around. . . . Racism in the U.S. is so pervasive . . . that only an armed, well-disciplined, black-controlled government can insure the stamping out of racism."

Reparations.

The manifesto demanded that the religious bodies of the United States provide $500 million in reparations for their implication in the "capitalistic...