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aot Ye + = 3 wae De oo “The "New York A " on 5-25-56 carried an article Se on page 8, entitled "Civil Rights Lag Scored at Rally." According to the article, Roy Wilkins, Erecutive Secretary, of the NAACP, spoke at a Civil Rights rally held at Madison Sguare Garden, NYC, on 5-24-56, Wilkins was reported as saying the Government could not "remain a neutral observer" and it was "the dity of the Chief Erecutive, no natter what hie party, to act pirmly to guide the nation in the obser- vance of the law.’ Above newspaper article enclosed with NY Airtel, 5-25-56 Re: City-Wide Madison Square Garden, Civil Rights Rally; Is-C mae > The 6-1-56 issue of "Birninghan News," Birninghan Ala., carried an article under the byline of Edwin Strickland regarding a temporary injunction issued against the NAACP by Judge Walter 8. Jones in Circuit Court, Montgomery, Ala. on 61-56, The article indicated that Roy Wilkins, Erecutive Secretary of the NAACP, had stated in New York that the "NAACP did not organize the Montgomery bus protest, but we joined the rest of the country in hailing the people who did. We did not employ Mrs. Autherine Lucy Foster to enroll at the University of Alabama." Further statements made by Wilkins tn defense of the NAA CP regarding the injunction were set out in the article. Statements fron article quoted in Birninghan rpt., 12-20-56 Re: Cohhinfil of the NAACP; TSC 61-39 76-1828 (5) - 163=