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Urban League’s Mr. and Mrs. Whitney Young, the NAACP’s Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wilkins, Mr. and Mrs Hobart Taylor, of the Civil Rights Commission, At­ torney Belford Lawson and his wife, Judge Marjorie Lawson, and New York's State Senator and Mrs. James L. Watson, who had accompanied

code. . . . Jam Branch NAACP held their ‘Mourning’ Memorial Ser vice for the 4 Birmingham chil­ dren in St. Albans Park last Sunday. . Tri-Boro Civil Rights Com­ mittee’s show planned for Sept 29 at the St. Albans Plaza has been postponed. It will headline Dick Gregory. Proceeds will bene

appearance at the Apollo Theatre. The Chicago comedian, who has been jailed in Mississippi and Alabama and in his own home town for his civil rights activities, said he has been in touch with the Justice Depart meet since his wife's arrest last w eek with six other Negroes

pernicious doctrine, of supremacy on thirteen million non-whites. « Actually South Africa, is the only country on earth in which the fundamental questions of civil rights are ' LEGALLY determined according to the color of the skin of the individuals. It is easy to imagine the conse­ quences of such official

Char­ les C. Diggs has called upon President Kennedy to request a special appropriation of 545,000 to enable the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to plan and help bring about special commemor­ ative events on the full mean­ ing of the Emancipation Procl&pi- ation. The Michigan Congressman

Brooklyn Longshoremen will be in close touch with their ‘ adopted” task force leader— thus creating a sense of personal involvement in the fight for civil rights. Mr. Scott, a founding member of the New York Trade Union Committee for CORE, emphasiz­ ed that: "This $1,300 is but one part

depth of con­ cern, a breath of intelligence, and a keen sense of history. He had the courage to be a friend of civil rights and a stalwart ad­ vocate of peace. The unmistaka­ ble cause of sincere grief ex­ pressed by so many millions was more than single emotion

last month at-the-urgings of Presi­ J ‘ dent Kennedy. * ♦ • • . As the nation anxiously awaited the coming show­ down over the President’s civil rights bill, a Senate subcommittee gave approval this week to a bill which would permit the government to uncover and halt The CORE leader, fresh from

Motley, associate counsel of the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund was principal speaker and dis­ cussed some of the more out­ standing civil rights cases han­ dled by the NAACP. She apprised the audience of the great stress which James Meredith Is undergoing In order to integrate

White House. The Mayor made the statement to a message to more than 500 labor, Negro, Puerto Rican, re­ ligious and civil rights repre­ sentatives who converged Tues­ day on the capital to urge the Governor to act on proposals to tacreaae the statewide hourly wage floor