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tae me a re a et =. . Organ ization; IS-C . 100-3f69-4112, p.6 li SI of 101 087-186 (9) 4 An article entitled, "Area NAACP Leaders to Discuss D.C. Pilgrimage," appeared in the 4-27-57 tasue of "Journal and Guide," a Negro newspaper published at Norfork, Va. The article indicated that a Miss Ella Baker, a veteran field worker for the NAACP, would be in Norfork to discuss parti- ci pation of area NAACP branches in the Frayer Pilgrinage to Washington, D.C. on 5-17-57, According to thearticle the State NAACP conference was responding to a call issued jointly by A. Philip Randolph, President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and a Vice President of CIO-AFL, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., President Montgomery Improvement Association, and Roy Wilkins, Erecutive Secretary of the NAACP, the leadera who had conceived and organized the pilgrinage. Norfork memo, 5-3-57 Re: Mafch of Washingto 62—1OZ087—@190 n, May 1957 oy Meet aa can