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rats Pei ee” Soe -t, gy eam . Loy bye a This reference was a meno from the ‘Director for Ur. Tolson, Ur. Boardman, Mr. Belmont and Mr. Nichols, dated 5-10-57, advising of a conference which the Director attended in the Attorney General's Office on 5-8-57. The director stated that the purnose of ‘the conference was to discuss the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom whichwas scheduled for 5-17-57 in Washington, D.C. The general plans and purposes of the Pilgrimage were outlined hy the Director for the conference, He advised that the Attorney General was inforned that the leaders of the movement were, Roy Wilkins, Erecutive Secretary of the NAACP, the Rev. M, L. King, Jr., who headed the Montgonery, Ala., bus boycott, and A. Philip Randolph, President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Refergnce described above 62— 10h 087-246 (9) This reference was a meno to the Attorney General ‘dated 5-10-57 captioned "Prayer Pilgrinage for Freedom March On Washington, May 17, 1957, advising that a Bureau offictal had outlined to Thurgood Marshall, the General Counsel of the NAACP, the .—plana of the CP to participate in the Pilgrinage for Freedom in Washington, D.C. on 517-57, Marshall advised the Bureau official the NAACP had received word that the communists were seeking to take over the delegation of Pennsylvania and Roy Wilkins had warned the delegates to elininate the comnunists and those whom the communists might seek to infiltrate into their delegationa, It was noted that the Bureau had received revious infore mation that, @h, te GeSZ_s itlad’ taPAS ode Tania ® BIC Roy Vilkine had watted elegates to the Pilgrimage must be screened in order. that all “leftists” could be elininated. . . : errs