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WY 100-7629 Wthe Left pleys cso mo@est ea role. Its pelicy of indecendent politics] scticn coinciaes with the require- ments for brecking through the G.0O.P.-Dixiecret roac- block to progressive foreign and domestic policy. Its serious quest for allies, especially in the labor movement, will help to conzcolidate the democratic peoplets conlition for 1956, ‘nd its militant, fighting spirit ~ fjJeots the mood of its quarter-million members cnd the Negro people ss a whole, tAnpriovimately 600 veople cttended the N.AVA.C.P. Convention in Atlantic City, Now Jorrey, June 21 to 26. On the fourth cry the Credentiels Committee reported 479 voting delegates end 256 ¢lturnates, observers end fraternal delegetes; others crrived towerd tne end of the week. "There were 130 voting dele; ctes and 130 others from the Middle Atlentic and New Snglend stctus; the Mid-Western dAegions sent 134 represent. tives; the Par West NT gion sent 52; and the Southern Regions sont 295, or 39% of the total. s#rproximately one-half o° tne ¢€35 community brencnes, youth councils end colle, chaoters represented ét the Convention sre located in Seuthorn retions. "This roletiyoly high reprssentetion from the Southern states rerlests the Associntionts widcesoren orgenization in the South. Souwe U59 (615) of NA. CP. ts 730 community brenches, lel of its cll youth counetic, ond 28 of its 64 collcve ehapters rere in ihe Souths... "Tt wos pe serious convention. !ltnovgh prectically devoid of the dramatic or tuneiting! moments, it wes notable for the dvad-in-cerrnest concern of most delegates, esp: cially those from tic South, to greppls with the conerctc or-blems they face bre home. ind out of it all there cmerged oc formulation of polisy and prograin which uncorscorcs the hey Importenee c viet el ePe in the fleht for civil rights, civil libcrti_s, cconomic ry Sin] aa? OQ