The need for action (Part 1 of 2)

Father James E. Groppi, a white Roman Catholic priest leading a black militant group in Milwaukee known as the Commandos, addresses the Racism in America symposium at Sacramento State College, October 3, 1968. Part one.
|KPFA Folio note, February 1969: Father James E. Groppi, a white Roman Catholic priest, is a leader of a black militant group in Milwaukee known as the Commandos. His activities in the civil rights movement include the Washington March of 1963 and the Selma-Montgomery March of 1965; he led Negro marchers into Milwaukee’s south side in the “hot summer” of 1967. In 1965, he was arrested twice for resisting arrest. Father Groppi has split the Catholic Church of Milwaukee into factions, because at the age of 36, he has converted St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church into the Commandos’ stronghold. Services and sermons there are addressed to the “soul and temperament” of the Negro people.