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subsequently closed because of the boycott. TV Networks Discover The “Revolution ” The television cameras of the three major national networks are completely roaming the civil rights field, touching such areas as the Aug. 28 March On Wash­ ington and press coverage of other demonstrations, for the American audience. The television

125th Street. | Picketing of an uptown | branch bank construction site ended Tuesday fol­ lowing an agreement on hiring policy reached be­ tween a civil rights group and the contractors. The Greater New York Coordinating Committee for Equal Opportunity called off the pickets at the construction 3ite of the Manufacturers

becoming more and more apparent that many of the activities being held in our fair city and advertised as being held to aid the civil rights straggle in the South are nothing but outright hustles. . More and more affairs are being held, osten­ sibly “to aid -the struggle

youth coordinator, Mrs. Enid C. Baird; the increase in the Schol­ arship Fund grant for 1963-1S64 and the implementation of the Civil Rights resolution adopted at Conclave. Mrs. Eleanor T. Guilford, Northeastern regional director an­ nounced the program for the re­ gional conference October 26th at the Golden

practitioners. He asked for a re­ vision of Civil Service require­ ments for supervisory personnel, urging that inch appointees he required to bold Master* De- .Vo. Chamber Starts Course In Sales The Jamaica Chamber of Com­ merce program for civil rights goes into action next month, Louis S. Hughes, Chamber

AMSTERDAM NEWS, Sat., Sept. 28, 1963 '—:---------—-- ---------------- - —— ------------------- -»* y — Seek Negroes To Apply For Housing The West Side Civil Rights Committee formed out of the American Jewish Congress is try­ ing to get Negroes to apply for housing in the 70 s and 80 s in the area of Riverside Drive

mind went back not only to Lincoln and to the Emancipation Proclamation, but to the summer of 1957 when Congress enacted a civil rights bill which included a provision for a Civil Rights Commission. Last week this Civil Rights Com­ mission fulfilled the request of Presi­ dent Kennedy

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AMSTERDAM NEWS, Sat., Nov. I, 1963 Top Leaders Meet At Howard Nov. 5 WASHINGTON - Several of the n&Uoa's leading civil rights leaders, inculding Rev. Martin \ Luther King Jr., James Fanner, and John Lewis, will speak at a two-day conference on "Youth, Nonviolence, and Social Change," • at Howard

nothing which more clearly etches the plight of the Negro in the Deep South states than an arrest in Mississippi for demon­ strating for civil rights. Such an arrest is possible simply because in the state the Negro does not count. Thus Negro Mis- sissippians may be arrested, tried