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Nothing said about the South can ever be said without qualification. Cynics point out accurately that "new eras" in the South have been proclaimed before-and none was ever new enough. Still, in the past decade the Negro has gained more than in the whole century before, and in the...
Roy Wilkins, national president of the NAACP, took a swipe at COFO last week when he announced his group's summer plans. "This will be a campaign with the NAACP family in charge," he said. "It will be the case of NAACP sponsored workers going to work with our organizations...
King will address the marchers at 15 p.m. tomorrow, just before the on the Canitol begins. Also on making will be James Farner, John Lewis, Roy Wilkins, Ralph Bunche, and others. "Reports from other centers of civil rights activity--Tuscaloosa, Marion, Birmingham, and Selma will also be presented.
In Washington, NAACP Executive Director Roy Wilkins told a House judiciary sub-committee that the administration's civil rights voting bill is good, but not good enough. He asked for now safeguards, including the elimination of the poll tax as a requirement in state and local elections.
This series of covers devoted to searching inquiries into the many aspects of the civil rights crisis-as seen from the North, the South and the middle-has included such subjects as Chief Justice Earl Warren (1953), Civil Rights Advocate Thurgood Marshall (1955), U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell (1957), Arkansas...