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Flr-350 (4-3-62) "earee = . Marte, i vie Singing. hymns ‘and © “carrying * small black” mourning. flags, “the ; marchers moved through. 90-de- { gree heat on their 10-block parade “to ‘the shady park ‘at E.. ; 26th, ave. ,and Williams | ste oe “ *. There, the group swelled to ut 500, who crowded about } 1 Negro leaders and ministers - They eulogized. Evers who _ wa: ‘whot* from? ambush jis .Jackso _Miss., June 12. =. : “You are here to commemorate ‘the death of a: great American,” ‘declared Irving’ P.: * Andrews, : Denver attorney and president of ‘the. Colorado unit of the National olored People. : “He is dead today” because as black,” Andrews said.” ou can never'do enough, in | an’s memory. — ‘ “What Evers tried to do in his lifetime was to restore you to your dignity’... .. to stand up and be men and ‘women in this country, [to be true upright Americans. You pating in the winds of change,” an _Andrews said. The demonstration was the ¥ first of two scheduled here this . ; week. Tuesday night, a march from the. :East Denver park where Sunday’s . -service was held to the City-Coun-° ty Bldg. downtown is scheduled to jend with presentation of demands* to the city government for an. end, to all discrimination ° against’ Negroes ‘in housing, employment ' and job advancement. °° Among Negro leaders present’ were-the Rev. L. Sylvester Odom, a Methodist minister who heads the Greater nver Action Assn. for the’ Advancement of “are now experiencing and partici-: leaders. bout 150 Denver Negroes plus a dozen whites paraded: cefully along caver Negr Fuller Park Sunday in a dem- ae for Medgar Evers, slain civil rights leader. *. Committee. delivered. the prin-, cipal speech #1 rahe 5 memorial. serv+ ice FF 3% He chided Negroes who did not. participate, saying ‘he had ‘seen’ several along ‘the route ‘of the march “watering thelr lawns while, Rome burns.” . .. He urged them’ to “get off. your porches” and into; the fight, for equality. * ” “We need: ‘jobs, wee “Jobs ‘that pay decent salaries,” he said. “We need the right to buy homes wher- ‘ever our money will eneble us to buy, without resorting to subter- fuge.” continue to treat Negroes here fairly and assurance “that those ; black men on the force can be ad- vanced to positions of authority.” ‘A white minister, the Rev. Jack H; Alford of Denver, of .the Na- j tional . -Council of the Churches of Christ, was one of the’ parade a = cee He praised Denver police for ~ their co-operation, but said Ne- ‘groes need assurance police will (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) kk ROCKY MOUNTAIN N LERVER, COLGRALG Date: 6/24/63 . Edition: Home Final Author: Editor: Title: Jock Foster Character: Racial Matte: 157-35 Lenver or Classification: Submitting Office: