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...opening session: "Everybody knows Whitey's a devil. The question is what to do about it." Notably absent were the N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins, the National Urban League's Whitney Young Jr., and Martin Luther King Jr. Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell, honorary co-chairman of the conference, decided to keep on fishing in Bimini. Conference leaders discouraged delegates from talking to reporters; one white newsman was pitched out of a ground-floor window and four others were roughed up when a gang of young Negro militants barged into a press conference screaming: "Get the Whitey...
...true that the YRs adopted a right-wing platform full of hostility towards the Soviet Consular Treaty and civil rights legislation. And all the arch-conservative candidates for the national offices--including former Birchite Dottee Francher of Arizona, the new co-chairman--scored easy victories over more moderate opponents. But the fact that new chairman Jack McDonald represents ultra-conservatism is not half so significant as the fact that he represents a small faction, known almost mystically as "the Syndicate...
After Dean Jones' announcement that SNCC had been kicked off campus, the Rev. Kirkpatrick and Millard Lowe, student co-chairman of the Friends of SNCC, along with Lee Otis Johnson, a former T.S.U. student, and Franklin Alexander, the DuBois Club chairman from Chicago, organized a protest rally. When Jones answered the SNCC group's appeal with a letter saying that he could not reconsider his decision, Kirkpatrick called for a boycott of the school. Johnson, who was indefinitely suspended by Dean Jones in December for making boisterous speeches in the university's coffee shop, led a march through the halls...
This year Challenge tightened its admission policy. "We decided to get boys who without Challenge would be unlikely to improve in school... boys from low income families where higher education seems hardly a realistic possibility," says Thomas Dublin '68, co-chairman of the program. Challenge now screens teacher recommendations more carefully by visiting the homes of prospective students. The program has also started to recruit students from sources outside the school system--like settlement houses and present Challenge students. Satisfied with the new techniques, Challenge's directors will try to utilize non school sources even more next year...
After King makes his statement, he will be joined in a press conference by Dr. Benjamin Spock, the pediatrician and co-chairman of SANE, and Robert Scheer, editor of Ramparts. Spock and King were leaders of the New York rally. It is not yet known where the meeting will be held...