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NAACP — Part 5
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LEVANT,
"We intend to buttonhole seat emand passage of measures,
especially bills to protect the individual and the right to vote.
These two problems have been highlighted by the Mississippi situation."
The article went on to state that it was also intended to ask more
power for the Justice Department in dealing with civil rights matters,
and that the civil rights section of the Justice Department be given
broad powers and additional personnel, as a full-fledged Division
of the Department of Justice.
The IW#, issue of February 8, 1956, in an article, "&
Point Program Drawn Up for Mass Civil Righte Lobby in Capital,"
states that Congress would be urged by more than 2,000 delegates
from Negro, labor, church, fraternal, and people's organizations
on March 4 - 6, 1956, to enact meight point legislative program
on civil rights. According to ROx WILKINS, whe called the mobili-
gation, the 51 sponsoring organizations would ask for an eight point
program which was set out in the article, and which eight points,
with slight variations, were the same eight points as set forth
in the pamphlet, "Congress Must Act — On Civil Rights."
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