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a . ( okrren STATES DEVARTMENT or JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Los Angeles, California. April 11, 1966 a — é PROTEST MARCH SPONSORED BY NATIONAL FARM WORKERS = ASSOCIATION, DELANO TO SACRAMENTO, CALITORNIA ee . March 17, 1966 to April 10, 1966 = ~ INFORMATION CONC. ING ~ Ad . m=@Reference is made to memorandum dated April 8, 1966. ~ On April 12, 1966 advise L raat @ was conducted in Palm Springs, California, by a group in sympathy with the Delano grape strikers. The parade -— was conducted in a peaceful and orderly manner and no incidents _ occurred. ~ —_— The Daily Enterprise, a newspaper for Riverside County, in an article dated April 11, 1966, set forth in part that following an orderly parade of some 200 persons through downtown Palm Springs yesterday, leaders of the "Committee to Support the Delano Grape Strikers" pledged to keep their group alive to aid the farm workers in California. — -The march did not attract any large number of onlooxers despite its wide publicity over the past week. Little girls in starched Easter dresses solemnly paraded carrying signs — that read, “Away With Farm Slavery." The marchers did not meet with Governor Edmund Brown, who was spending the day in Palm Springs with his family at the Frank Sinatra residence, but they did not expect to. Following the wind-blown parade over a mile or co along Palm Canyon Drive, the marchers returned to Hardy Fark, the organizational point, whereleaders of the committee called upon participants to continue their efforts in behalf of the farm workers. - copire NIST ONT? 4 LLL 7. . Za. FER 9 wil ENCLOSURE