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| CONPIRNTIAL eres DE 100-3348 L8th ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE NAACP Detroit, Michigan June 25 - 30, 1957 ot I. BRIEF SUMMARIZATION OF CONVENTION PROCEEDINGS June 25th Session An article appearing on page 6, column one, of the June 25, 1957, 5 Star Final of the "Detroit News," a caily newspaper of general circulation in Detroit, captioned "NAACP Hits Congress as Leggard" states that Roy WILKINS, NAACP Executive Secretary, claimed that Congress ie the chief laggard in the fight for civil rights, at the opening of the formal sessions of the NAACP Convention in the Veterans Memorial Building in Detroit on 6/25/57. WILKINS is also reported in the article as stating that the CP has "failed again and again" to win support of the Negroes, The article continues quoting WILKINS "'The Negro American has no eympathy for Communism whatsoever. No more than 2,000 Negroes ever were claimed by the Communists themselves. When you have some 16,000,000 Negroes in America, badgered and harrassed as they ere, 4t 4s a miracle that more have not turned to Commmisn." WILKINS is also quoted in the ebove article as stating - that of the NAACP's 350,000 members, “'There may be some fellow travelers and sympathizers, Dut no known Communists dn the orgenization.™ _ This article stated that the June 25, 2957, wessions were Zevoted Aargely to routine organizational a —_ ee Tet