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Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) introduced a bill last October that would meet every one of the Poor People's long-range objectives. That bill is now languishing in eight little pieces in eight congressional comtees.
Meanwhile, liberal Congressmen such as Michigan's Conyers and California's Edwards expect that this march will be no more violent than the peaceful 1963 crusade. But the SCLC leadership has so far kept its distance from the Congressional liberals and thus far the liberals' predictions are not much more...
Into Next Year. The mobs cared nothing for "Negro leadership" either. When the riot was only a few hours old, John Conyers, one of Detroit's two Negro Congressmen, drove up Twelfth Street with Hubert Locke and Deputy School Superintendent Arthur Johnson. "Stay cool, we're with you...
But this is the source of Conyers' charisma in the eyes of many Negroes. They know that he feels that the Democratic party must confront the problems of the nation's disadvantaged with a massive and quick effort. They know that he thinks that many of the traditional supporters of...
Aside from his difficulties in Detroit with the UAW, however, Conyers must soon come to grips with the issue of Vietnam and the 1968 elections. At Harvard, Conyers hammered away at the conflict between heavy war appropriations and a meaningful program to open up economic opportunity for the nation's...