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NY 105-8999 The February 18, 1963, edition of the "Democrat and Chronicle” conteined an article which reflected that the Rochester Branch of the Netional Association for the Advancemart of Colored People (NAACP), Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Monroe County, Non-Partisan League and the Rochester Civil Rights League, the latter a reactivated organization to coordinate local civil rights organisations, held a meeting on February 17, 1963, in Rochester and calied for a united front ection to demand civil riguts for Rochester Negroes, There were several speakers at this reeting including subject, who was not e scheduled speaker, and who charged the police with breaking into a religous meeting. fiso during his speech subject criticized Negro factions who were “too afraid’ to unite, and stated that you do not get “enything bi being polite”. On Pebruary 13, 1963, subject Iea‘a public demonstration in Times Square, New York, New York, to protest the arrest of NOT members in "Rochester, New York, ‘The demonstrators were chiefly NOI members from Mongque Number 7, New York, New York. 9D On February 16, 1953, subfect spoke at a NOT sponsored Street Rally held in Harlem at 7th Avenue and 125th Street, New York, New York, to protest the, arrest of HOLT membere in Rochester, New York, Pollowing this rally subject led a demonstration in | Rockefeller Center on Fifth Avenue between 49th and. New York, for this same purpose, in his apeech at the rally in Harlem su we must let the white man know that we Bre Snot ofraid. end we will fight and die for aur freedom, We must also let the white man know thet if we die we will not Gie alone. ~19- 4? OE TOA LE gS ety Senet ae eee er gems ner rn ERY ee oo see