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Stanley Levison — Part 12
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5/20/69
On 5/20/69, LEVISON was contacted by ANDREW YOUNG,
SCLC Executive Vice President and they criticized RALPR ;
ABERNATHY, SCLC President, for trying to emulate MARTIN LUTHER
KING, deceased President of the SCLC, YOUNG complained that
ASERNATHY is suffering from an inferiority complex which affects
his judgments. LEVISON at YOUNG'S suggestion agreed to contact
ABERNATHY to see if he could get hin straightened out.
On the same date, LEVISON told CORETTA KING, widow
of MARTIN LUTHER KING, Jr., that he was opposed to her being —-.-
the keynote speaker at the forthcoming SCLC Convention. He
was opposed to it because he said it would place her in a policy-
making status whereas she should limit her activities to
participation in the cultural part of the convention,
This information was furnished to the Bureau and
interested offices by airtel and LEM dated 5/23/69, captioned
"Cominfil SCLC; Is-C".
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On 5/22/69, MOE FONER, an official of Local 1199,
Drug and Hospital Employees Union, WYC, advised LEVISON that
@ meeting was to be held with a LANE KIRKLAND of the AFL-CIO
in reference to the hospital workers strike in Charleston,
South Carolina. The following were to be discussed:
2. @ combined march and rally
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3. participation of the International Longshorenen's
Association
&, a step up of the campaign in Charleston, South
Carolina
LEVISON was of the opinion that it was time for people
to begin going to jail and to institute a national boycott,
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