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Leaders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, who are still in Washington with about three hundred campaigners (some in the D.C. jail), admitted last week that it is a good thing that the City is gone. The Rev. Andrew Young and the Rev. Hosea Williams of SCLC both said that the business was a mistake...
...SCLC needs no less than $3 million to survive through the middle of June. Right now, the only hope for getting this money is a massive march on Memorial Day that may bring hundreds of thousands of people (and dollars) into Washington to support the campaign...
...programs that SCLC describes as "goals" are hardly radical. Its idea of guaranteed income is only for "those either too young, too old, or too handicapped to work." They merely want welfare spruced up, more efficient. Their demands for jobs have already been proposed by the Johnson Administration. The Poor People's Campaign, then, is a struggle to get in, a struggle to educate, not a struggle to force America to accept a radically new kind of society...
Leading us around, Sweet Willy ran into one of the marshals, and the marshal said to him, "Who are you? You with SCLC?" And Sweet Willy said, "Yep." Then the marshal asked him, "Where are you from?" Sweet Willy said, "Memphis. I'm Sweet Willy from Memphis. You ask anybody." That worked...
Underneath the beauty of the Invaders from Memphis and the rhetoric of fallen leaders there is not much stuff. People are walking around in brand new denim coveralls with cars from California that have SCLC bumper stickers next to Bobby Kennedy bumper stickers. Even if this thing ends in violence (it is already confused and frustrated, and that combination often leads to violence), this is not a revolution, nor what it meant to be. Everything the Poor People want has already been proposed by the Johnson Administration, the Urban Coalition, or the Kerner Commission. The only thing really...