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Blue-Sky Manifesto. The week was not, however, a total loss. In New York, Organizer Bayard Rustin skillfully set about mobilizing marchers and money for the massive June 19th demonstration that is intended to highlight the demands of the poor; to ensure order, Rustin is arranging for nearly 1,500 black New York City policemen (known as "the Guardians") and firemen ("the Vulcans") to serve as marshals in Washington on the big day. On Capitol Hill, Abernathy and 20 sympathetic Congressmen agreed to set up six subcommittees that will seek legislation to aid the poverty-stricken. Among the measures that...
...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 smartest move yet; Rustin is the master organizer who turned the 1963 March on Washington into a nonpareil of nonviolence...
Lynn, who has been on sabbatical this year while writing a critical biography of William Dean Howells, has spent most of the last twenty-five years at Harvard. He is not the only member of the English department leaving at the end of this year--Rustin C. McIntosh '55 and Neil L. Rudenstine, assistant professors of English, are also resigning...
Support for Frontlash has come from the AFL-CIO's Committee on Political Education. Michael Harrington, Bayard Rustin and Gus Tyler are members of its National Advisory Board...
...which may partially explain the extraordinary availability of important guests, who seem as eager as Greenwood to show their faces on TV. Last week's was Urban League Director Whitney Young; before that the program offered Bayard Rustin, Senators Charles Percy and Wayne Morse, Billy Graham and Walter Heller. Next week Greenwood has filming sessions scheduled with Bobby Kennedy, Jack Benny and Conrad Hilton. For next month, when Greenwood goes to Europe, he has talks arranged with West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt and, pending approval of the questions, Charles de Gaulle...