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Jones to Nichols Memo _ oo a 5-21-56 situation and he referred to it as a! grass roots upheaval" with which the. NAACP had nothing to do. In regard to the present political campaign, Marshall denied that there was any such thing as a "Negro vote" but he said that the Negroes should support the party with the best Civil Rights platform. He stated that unless the. Democrats produce. more in the: Civil Rights line, sorae Negroes might go Republi can. In regard to White Citizens. Council, (wee) he said that they: [represented a threat to the Government as’a.whole and that like the Kt. Klux Klan, these Councils were a threat to the economic growth of the South and that in addition’ ‘they controlled the state legislatures in Mississippi and Alabama. and that their main reason for existence was. to cut down the membership and the flow of. funds. to the NAACP, For information only. a Py