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MALCOLM NASH If there were any doubts on the kind of support the great body of American Christendom and Jewry would give the mighty civil rights demonstration, they were quietly drowned in the sea of humanity that very nearly swallowed the peaks of the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial

Farmer, and John Lewis of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Com­ mittee are scheduled to address the mass rally along with sev­ eral local civil rights leaders and government officials and many entertainers will perform. Nelson said. « —Sweeps -JFK (Continued from Page One) (Continued from Page One) At a press

Baldwin fired back at a white teacher Wednesday who asked him to define the role of the white liberal The world - acclaimed writer and civil rights giant lectured some 250 school teachers in Har­ lem’s PS 180. He spoke to an in- service teacher training session, his subject

number, inadequate sanitary ' facilities, inadequate emergency i medical service or food facil­ ities for such a number," he | said. The Joint Committee on Civil Rights, a group of Negro and white organizations sponsoring the march, did not say how many persons were expect­ ed to take part in the march

reduce unemployment among themselves and their de­ pendence upon whites. The proposed boycott against Santa Claus - Christmas seems to be losing supporters among civil rights leaders. NAACP lead­ er Roy Wilkins last week said he, too, would not go along with such a ban. MIK To RFK ATLANTA

city as a “target city,” the de­ mark a watershed in the history cision seems almost foolhardy. of the nonviolent revolution in America. No civil rights thrust of the Negro community in our na­ tion has so completely captured the attention and sympathy of public opinion. No single instance

ministration’s sorry civil righto record by criticizing others,” their statilnent asserted. r In addressing the NAACP State Conference mobilization to Alba­ ny last Tuesday, Gov. Rockefel­ ler had criticized President Ken­ nedy for not moving fast enough in the field of civil rights and of recommending civil rights legis

Eagle Award, the highest rank given in the Boy Scouts of America. Press AMA For Stand On Hospitals The American Medical Com­ mittee for Civil Rights this week It was recently awarded to Ralph Escobar, Jr., a member of Post No. 62. Ralph, a recent gra­ duate of junior high

must meet and dis­ cuss these charges with the Board of Educaton and its Board of Examiners. Our authority is federal The U.S. Civil Rights Commission set up advisory com mittee® in each state to function as a part of the United State Commission on Civil Rights. "Even though

Staff men ~ Bulletin President Lyndon B. Johnson told the nation’s governors in Washington Monday night that ho will press for the enactment of civil rights and tax legislation proposed by the late President Kennedy. By JAMES BOOKER WASHINGTON — President Lyndon B. Johnson was expected to tell a joint session