For neighbourhood organisations,
parties not only
coordinated the democratic transition with the military, they agreed to implement an unequal economic system that strengthened
class segregation.
The old civil rights establishment was increasingly integrated into the Democratic
Party, while «black power» and nationalist demagogues like former Student Non-Violent
Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leader Stokely Carmichael emerged with a pseudo-revolutionary message that was openly hostile to the working
class.