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Eighteen of the poor were arrested for unlawful assembly on Capitol Hill. Two hundred young toughs, mostly from Chicago and Detroit, were bounced from the 15-acre tent city for drinking, stealing and, as the Rev. James Bevel put it, "beating on our white people." Organizational snafus forced the leaders to put off a big march scheduled for this week until June 19 (known as "Juneteenth Day" for the anniversary of the freeing of the slaves in Texas in 1865). They also sent out an emergency summons to Bayard Rustin to handle the march, which may prove to be their...
...Delta farm land, and clouds of mosquitoes dive-bombed the dwellers. To avert dysentery and flu epidemics, the leaders evacuated 100 of the 2,400 residents, mostly toddlers, until the campsite could dry out. Still, the campaign's leaders professed themselves undiscouraged. "I was talking to the Lord," Bevel reported, "and he said he was going to let a little mud in here, so those it troubled could go on home. The Lord says he don't want them around...
Leadership is a definite problem too. Abernathy has been on the road almost constantly since the campaign reached Washington. In charge at Resurrection City is the Rev. James Bevel, a bright man, but hardly an inspiring leader...
While Abernathy was calming congressional sympathizers last Wednesday, Bevel, in contrast, was giving reporters a hard line at a press conference. Abernathy himself has been vacillating. No one knows whether he is "hard" or "soft." He seems to change his mind daily...
...Bevel was happy enough with the way things went to suggest, off-the-cuff, that they march on the White House. Other Mobilization officials jumped at the idea and the date was set, May 17. They telegrammed President Johnson Monday night, telling him to get out of Vietnam in a month or get ready for visitors...