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ear fad ms The "New Orleans States" New Orleans, La., 0n 1-8-57 page 5, cols. 5 and 6, carried an article entitled HAA CP Readies South - wide Bus Miz Drive." The article reported that plans for a "stepped ~ up" campaign to tntegrate buses tin the South would he discuased at a meeting tn Atlanta, Ga. Roy Wilkins, WAACP, Erecutive Secretary, had stated in New York that court prosecution of the NAACP in some Southern cities and defiance of desegregation rulings had stirred a record wa ve of financial and moral support and NAACP receipts for er +. = = Be —-~ @ == fn e 1956 hit a pega oy more than a niliion doilars. 61-3176-A "New Orieane Statds, " 1-8-57 (6) rm The "Atlanta Constitution” on 1-25-57 carried an '. er ee ee) weer i i oe 7 wir he he re whi article entitled "Griffin Says NAACP Stirs Dixie to ‘Riot According to the article, Governor Griffin of Georgia had tasued a prepared statement commenting on a speech nade in Atlanta by Hoy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the NAACP. Wilkins in his speech had called on President Lisenhowerto speak out agatnet violence toward Negroes tn the South and accused Governor Griffin of "giving a green light to hood- luns." Griffin stated he would not "dignify"” Wilkins by mentioning him by name in the statement but reninded Georgtans that "these people come into our state for the sole purpose of collecting money and stirring up trouble." 61-3176-A "Atlanta constitution, ” a “he