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Ross, who was elected president last November after T. Jefferson Frasier '64 resigned in protest against sponsoring Gov. Wallace's speech at Harvard, based his campaign on his record since taking office, on his "strong leadership," and on the guest speakers he has scheduled for this spring, including Roy Wilkins...
King is in many ways the unlikely leader of an unlikely organization-the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a loose alliance of 100 or so church-oriented groups. King has neither the quiet brilliance nor the sharp administrative capabilities of the N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins. He has none of the...
Now sit-in campaigns and demonstrations erupted like machine-gun fire in every major city in the North, as well as in hundreds of new places in the South. Negroes demanded better job opportunities, an end to the de facto school segregation that ghetto life had forced upon them. The...
To cap the summer's great storm of protest, the Negro leaders sponsored the now famous March on Washington. It was a remarkable spectacle, one of disorganized order, with a stateliness that no amount of planning could have produced. Some 200,000 strong, whites and blacks of all ages...
It is with this history in mind that Roy Wilkins said are Evers' funeral, "The killer must have felt that he had, if not an immunity, then certainly a protection for whatever he chose to do, no matter how dastardly it might be."