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PAGE Two . LEVISON THAT SCLC SHOULD GO FOR MORE NEGRO MEMBERSHIP BECAUSE THEIR DIRECT MAILING IS TOO WHITE, LATER ON SAME DATE YOUNG CONTACTED LEVISON'S WIFE WHO SAID STANLEY WANTED YOUNG TO KNOW THAT HE, LEVISON, FELT RALPH ABERNATHY SHOULD ATTEND CONFERENCE IN NYC ON APRIL TWENTY SECOND NINTEEN SIXTYEIGHT WITH YOUNG. YOUNG SAID HE FAVORED WALTER FAUNTROY CFORMER DIRECTOR WASHINGTON BUREAU _ OF SCLC) AS CHAIRMAN. ON APRIL TWENTY NINETEEN SIXTYEIGHT, SOURCE FURNISHED FOLLOWING INFORMATION? CLARENCE JONES TOLD LEVISON KE HAD BEEN CALLED BY ee naron EUGENE) MC CARTHY'S PEOPLE ABOUT INVITATION FOR CORETTA KING TO ATTEND RALLY IN MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, MAY NINTEEN, NOT TO ENDORSE MC CARTHY BUT TO GET MONEY FOR MARC POOR PEOPLE’S CAMPAIGN). LEVISON SAID SHE IS NOT GOING TO ENDORSE ANYONE AT PRESENT. SAID KE WOULD. TALK TO, YOUNG AND ABERNATHY ’ OVER WEEKEND AND LET JONES KNOW. ON SAME DATE LEVISON AND HARRY BELAFONTE DISCUSSED PROPOSED BOOK BY CORETTA KING. LEVISON SAID HOLT PUBLISHERS HAD OFFERED SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS WITH ASSURANCE IT IS BOOK THEY WILL BE WILLING TO INVEST IN, A HUMAN STORY LIKE “MY LIFE WITH MARTIN KING.” SAID “MC CALL’S" WANTS' TO DO SERIAL RIGHTS AND WILL PAY SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS - WHICH IS PART OF SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. BELAFONTE REFERRED To A GATHERING: ¢NOT a WHERE ABERNATHY SOUS, OY o : END PAGE Two _ | segeet.