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. 5 ; ’ . : . S | | The “New York Amster News" a NY Weekly Negro newspaper, of 1/20/62, reported that the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (62-107653) would stage a mass mobilization of civil rights leaders throughout the country to Washington, D.C., in early March, 1962, to seek bi-partisan support behind certain civil rights bilis. Roy Wilkins, Chairman of the Leadership sroup and Executive Secretary of the NAACP, stated, according to this article, that this year's : mobilization would not seek to have a large mass of people but to have . - a wide cross section of representation from ali parts of the country, "to show that we don't agree with the Kennedy Administration's civil i rights position---." Wilkins said the Leaders Conference represented. sixty national organizations. _ Soa! 62-107653-1 7 (4) : - r t ad , d Ma Wrae Vaetr Dimact af 9/8/49 nantatinad an antinata anti#iaa ” £11 AGW EWE RK 2 AI Wi Of Vi VGe WVLIEL GAD of GAL &hvid VMUELLELOUU "Liberals Decry All Extremists," which revealed that Roy Wilkins. was one of the speakers at a rally of young liberal Democrats held, on 3/7/62, at the St. Nicholas Arena, Broadway and Sixty-sixth St., NYC. The gathering, titied "Stand Up for Democracy Rally," was sponsored by | the campus division of Americans for Democratic Action (100-348196), the National and NY State College Young Democrats and Students for a Democratic Society. (No details regarding Wilkin's speech) 100-348196-A "New York Times" (5) 3/8/62 SZ 190-434516-A "National Guardian" | (6) 3/5/62 (Wilkins to be a speaker at pe auvyvve bas 3 iy) st} 0-348196-A "New York Post" 3/4 dvise at on 7/22 » trom approximate 4 ome. tO 6:1 : ~m., on 72nd St. between Second and Third Avenues, NYC, approximately | 5000 people assembled at Z pay sponsored by the Committee for Justi to Hospital Workers. advised that this rally supported rr : the efforts of Local 1ToSmnrig and | ployees Union (100-4154 . to organize the NYC hospital workers. said that Roy Wilkins, . National Executive Secretary of the NAACP, Was among the individuals = introduced at the rally. : 7 100-445473-44 p. 26 et SI. 62-108114-1 encl.: p. 2 (Gave bri . a comment on Gov. Rockefeller's promi. to assist hospital workers to obtai— yen to coliective bargaining. |