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For his part, N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Roy Wilkins declared in his speech to the convention that black power "can mean in the end only black death. We of the N.A.A.C.P. will have none of this. We have fought it too long. It is the ranging of race against race on...
Shades of Bilbo. More levelheaded Negro leaders-and white civil rights advocates-are appalled by the implications of the black-power mentality. Accusing S.N.C.C. of adopting a "black racist" course, N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Roy Wilkins adds that it is ominously similar to South Africa's apartheid policy, only turned...
"Political Assassination." C.C.A.P. Chairman Walter Reuther, whose United Auto Workers bankrolled the two-year-old organization with a $1,000,000 donation, set the critical tone at the outset by saying that the Great Society could not be built with "halfway, halfhearted" measures or by "making appropriations with an eyedropper...
One of the last weapons of white supremacists in the South is the all-white jury, and it has nowhere been employed more blatantly than in Ala bama's Lowndes County. In the slave-built county courthouse at Hayneville last fall, separate trials only weeks apart resulted in acquittals...
*Two fellow Klansmen convicted with Wilkins in the civil rights case, Eugene Thomas, 42, and William Orville Eaton, 41, also face trial for murder in Mrs. Liuzzo's slaying. Thomas is under indictment as well for violating the federal firearms law.