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third chair. Obie’s modern Barber Shop at 249 Avon Ave. is the “Bitter End/’ We certainly can’t understand why John Covington, civil rights leader resigned as assoc­ iate director of Anvil Enterprises, Inc. The organization has been instrumental for the past few months la civil rights fights

Rights Drive Shows Need For Legislatio The vast amount of discrimin­ ation in the building and con­ struction trades as revealed dur­ ing the civil rights demonstra­ tions earlier this year and the large number', of arrests which these demonstrations produced have prompted Bronx State Sen­ ator Ivan Warner

time farm hand. So he went to Savannah, Ga.. where he worked days and schooled evenings until finishing the 8th grade In 1915. civil rights He has been a long time mem­ ber of the Urban League and the NAACP. His church has won two awards as the local

prepar ing, on the southern side, to de­ bate and defeat, if it can. the great Constitutional ciudlenee pre sented by the civil rights bills submitted to it by the President. That there should be serious de­ bates matched only by the aston­ ishment that it should happen in America

Jersey State Conference of the American Jewish Committee, meeting here in Lakewood re­ cently, urged passage of a strong federal civil rights law and a strengthened fair housing law in New Jersey. The resolution backed an ad­ dress by State Attorney Arthur J. Sills calling for an increased moral responsibility

withheld by request. Justice For All Sir: A number of your readers have questioned the inclusion of people that are Puerto Rican In the civil rights struggle in the United States. I would like to state that Puerto Ricans have to be included because this Is a struggle for justice

CHICAGO - The National As­ sociation of Real Estate Brokers will set up an annual $100,000 “war chest” to be divided among the leading civil rights organi­ zations. Association president Q. V. Williamson of Atlanta said the special fund will be equitably donated to the NAACP, the South­ ern Christian

State Elks director of civil liberties, Clarence F. Griffith of Kingsboro Lodgfe No. 1473. He said that he would cooper­ ate with President Edward Nel­ sen of the New York Elks State Association in staging for the fall of this year a great civil rights rally for Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn

their seuteuees the stables, the training grounds were booed on the fact that they and *U other Belmont Park fac- were leaders in the civil rights titties are wholly located within movement in Albany. Slater King Nassau County . . . is currently president of the “With the closing of the track shortly

King, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Mr. Wilkins, NAACP executive secretary.-and Berl I.! Bernhard, director of the United States Commission on Civil Rights since Its inception in 1957. lea "In The Know" Are Taking Matures Powerful Formula Dr. -Martin Luther King. Jr. and Roy Wilkins