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...Freedom Vote, sponsored by COFO, Mississippi Negroes will cast ballots for United States Senator, choosing between Sen. John Stennis (D-Miss.) and Aaron Henry, head of the state NAACP. 80,000 voters are expected to take part in the "election...
Biloxi: Mrs. Green, a Negro resident of nearby Ocean Springs, beaten by whites at a circus here. Her 15-year-old son also beaten. When she brought police to the scene, warned to drop the matter or face possible arrest. NAACP investigating the incident...
Late Monday night Roy Wilkins visited FDP spokesman Aaron Henry and urged him to back down. Henry refused and the Party lost NAACP support. Rauh and King continued to counsel firmness. The wisdom of their resolve was proven Tuesday when the Administration offered a fresh compromise, giving the Freedom Party two at-large seats on the floor. Under intense Presidential pressure, New York and California, the core of the FDP's support, agreed to the proposal. In a hurried caucus of the Freedom delegation, Rauh and King urged the Party to accept the compromise and hail it as a great...
...with Martin Luther King's patience and Roy Wilkin's caution, and nationalism is not necessarily the reason for similar feelings among Negroes at Harvard. But nationalism is certainly evident in such statements as "The blacks have to be able to run their organizations--why is the president of NAACP white...
Whether or not nationalism is good policy is another question. According to Epps, who served this summer as special assistant to Thomas Atkins, executive secretary of the Boston branch of NAACP, nationalism is "a luxury" Negroes cannot afford. He stressed the importance of strategy, of using what volunteers one had, regardless of their motives...