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That was the spirit in which the convention began. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins decried the "reckless adventurism" of more militant civil rights groups. Warned Carl Rowan, a Negro and director of the U.S. Information Agency: "Don't use an elephant gun to hunt toads." Counseled Guest Speaker Hubert Humphrey...
Next day the President made a jet flight to New York City for an event so nonpolitical that it was practically a secret. It was a dinner for Jackie Kennedy and trustees of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library. Perhaps never before have so many celebrities gathered with so little...
As the subway savagery mounted, New Yorkers-millions of them totally dependent on subways for transportation -began to feel desperate. Adding to their fear was a chilling slogan-"White Man, Your Time Is Up"-scrawled on subway station walls. Civil rights leaders and police insisted it was not a campaign...
But in fact the "salutary violence" argument is not widely popular in the civil rights camp, and few argue seriously that violence is a good thing. None of the organizations working in Mississippi approve of self-defense. King, Farmer, and Wilkins would agree--even at the risk of being branded...
It seems to me that there are two fundamental positions which can be taken in regard to the problem of the Negro in America. The first is the position taken by the rights leaders, such as Wilkins, Farmer, King, and the White liberals, that is--the problem can be solved...