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...inside the camp if you know Miller and ask one of the marshals (everyone seems to be a marshal), but otherwise you have to stay out, except for periodic "press tours." The people from SCLC don't like you to interview the people inside. On Wednesday they were putting up snow fences to keep the crowd away, but if you have a camera you can take a press tour...
...blacks are generally passive. The local chapters of SCLC and CORE have little practical structure. There is no black power movement. Most of the local Negro leaders endorsed McCarthy, with little noticeable effect on their people. The Negroes of Barrington have been intimidated for years. They don't want to risk what they do have. Even McCarthy's proposed guaranteed annual income through a negative income tax was suspect. The people of Barrington work for what they get. They resent it--silently...
...handsome young man who has somehow transcended his whiteness. He is the man, they tell you, who spent his time during the Kennedy administration pleading for the Negro through the South. He has given tremendous amounts of money--10 percent of his worth, one lady claimed--to SCLC. He talks nice, he cares. He reminds some of them of his late brother. For others, he is quite literally John Kennedy...
...Contrary to newspaper reports," Abernathy said, the poor people will not remain in Washington after the campaign. They will stay "only as long as the SCLC stays there," he said...
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 than hopes...