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re UNITED STATES DEVARTMENT OF JUSTICE Ss - pEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION . _ .C. 20535 File No. DECLASSLFIED BY. A STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE STOKELY CARMICHAEL . ..:. There is set forth below_a_summary of current eptember 21, 1966... activity of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee _ and its leader, Stokely Carmichael, ~~ —— a Arrest of Stokely Carmichael, Atlanta, Georgia eptember 6, A confidential source advised that William Epton, Vice President of the Progressive Labor Party, was in contact with Ivanhoe Donaldson, Director of the New York Office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, on September 12, 1966, At the request of Donaldson, Epton agreed he would try to have some people send telegrams to Ivan Allen, Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, protesting the "political" arrest of Stokely Carmichael by the Atlanta Police Department on September 8, 1966. The Progressive Labor Party is a pro-~- Chinese Marxist-Leninist organization. T~Association Between the’ Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee _ A confidential source advised that a meeting of the executive staff of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was held at Atlanta, Georgia, on September 12, 1966. At this meeting, Martin Luther King, Jr., President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, stated that he was in favor > of "black power" only in the sense that the economic, social ‘and political. position of. Negroes must be improved, Within the confines of this qualification, King stated he, therefore, personally agreed with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Stokely Carmichael, However, he could not at ‘all countenance the current violent approach resorted to by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Carmichael in the recent Atlanta demonstrations.