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* ee am a ny kak ten pete Na meantime YBN ce Ae ah EEE Woe aN OL SO ete a ale alas wt vine Abs dah ee AAD , . ‘ Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) SEMET- cannotyerticipate. He described the selection of this date eas insane and advocated changing it to a Saturday. g) Rutherford explained that the 19th was chosen because the SCLC permit for Resurrection City was to expire on June 16th and calling the mass demonstration in the middle of the week coincides with the closing of schools. He said this would result in increasing student participation. However, Levison continued to criticize the chéice of June 19th and the way in which the PPC has been handled. He said the PPC began with everything in its favor but that all the credit and faith it had received has been dissipated. He claimed, despite protestations by Rutherford, that the PPC thus far has achieved no victories that mean anything to the public. He said that the purposes for going to Washington have not been carried out because this was supposed to have reached a new level of militancy that has never been reached before by a mass of people, and it has not. Levison continued that thus farthere has not been adequate leadership. He stated that he has the impression that no one wants to go to jail any more, that he sees militant Statements by Ralph Abernathy, Head of the SCLC, none of which are carried out. He described this as bombast by a new leader and said Abernathy should be the first one in jail after all the speeches he has made, nf . Rutherford maintained that the SCLC is the only organization around today with any base of support with the public. He said they have an action committee in Wastington, D.C. that has planned several demonstrations for the coming week which will include jail-ins and confrontations that will have to get» some kind of response. He said this will make June 19th a success, if anything wil]. Levison agreed stating that nobody — will come without it. According to the source, Levison and Rutherford also discussed how James Bevel, SCLC Staff Member , stands with respect to Jesse Jackson. Rutherford claimed that Jesse Jackson is Bevel's disciple and mouths many of Bevel's ideas. ff The source also learned that Levison plans to attend | an SCLC meeting in Washington, D.C. on June 4, 1968, which Coretta King, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., will attend. +! + SERETS od oer eer or Baap et eon