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ae The 5-4-57 tssue of the "Carolina pines,” Durham, N.C., newspaper, contained an article datelined New York, =< entitled: "Lincoln Memorial To Be Scene of 50,000 Gathering. " The articie stated that Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., at a press conference in New York, had described the objectives and plans for the May 17 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom of which he was co-chairman along with Roy Wilkins of the NAACP and A. Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Charlotte meno, 5-10-57 Re: March on. Washington May 1957 encloging Charlotte office meno 62~1G1087-295 (9) The "Datly Worker" of 5-6-57 carried an article entitled "NAACP Urges Nizon te Back Fords in Deeds." The article quoted in part, a telegram sent by Roy Wilkins to Vice President Nixon congratulating Nizon on his civil rights address before the Joint Defense Appeal of the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Birith in Chicago on April 30, Wilkins told Nizon the NAACP had long supported the principles he expressed but the leader- ship of both parties in congress had failed to enact needed civil rights laws and the Adninistration had adopted a policy of silence, 61-3776-A "DH," 5-62-47 (7)