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Pickets from the NAACP, CORE, the American Veterans Committee, the Unitarian-Universalists, and the State AFLCIO filed around the hotel carrying placards protesting the rally. Violence erupted on the picket line when a Polish refugee tried to burn a Communist flag on the sidewalk, causing a scuffle. The refugee, Joseph Mlot Mroz, president of the Anti-Communist Federation of Polish Freedom Fighters, was arrested on a charge of disturbing the peace...
...addition, CORE, the American Jewish Congress and the NAACP have established a "J a c k i e Washington Fund" to pay court expenses. Among the other groups which have expressed interest in the Fund, though they have not yet affiliated with it, are the American Veterans Committee, the Catholic Interracial Council, the United Packinghouse Workers Union, the Unitarian-Universalist Service Committee and the Jewish Labor Committee...
...central figure, Woody Hartman, gives Sydney Chaplin little to work with. Whether or not Weiner intended some symbolic use for that name, he has drawn a wooden and immobile character. Woody's personality seems to be a function of his political beliefs: active member of SANE, NAACP-good guy. But later, no time for SANE, fires a Negro employee...
Such tactics are currently being used by Mr. Frank Kelly, Democratic candidate for Attorney General, against Edward Brooke, the Republican candidate. The sum and substance of the charge is that while Brooke was with the NAACP he opposed anti-subversive legislation. This was ten years ago. The legislation involved was of doubtful constitutionality at best, as it turned over to the Attorney General awesome power to label "subversives" and prosecute them without much regard for due process...
Each of the candidates answered three questions prepared by representatives of the sponsoring groups--CORE, the NAACP, and the Fair Housing Federation--and was allowed five minutes to make a statement...