Box 17, Folder 14, Document 49

Box 17, Folder 14, Document 49

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Enacted, Wilkins Declares As
NAACP Opens Nat'l ron tia

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last y af vas, “We Wait No Long-
er.” This year, the slogan “Now or
Never” seems to be the choice.
From convention headquarters in
the Morrison Hotel to the far
reaches of the Southside, interest
in the gomvention and its work has
been intense.
| Mr. Wilkins delivered the key-
note dddress on the night of the
opening session.
Be Speakers for the six-day

eee: AME Zion Bishop
Stephen . Spottswood, chairman,
oard of Directors: the

Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, of Bir-
mingham; James Meredith, of the

University of Mi ie DY)
Charles Wesley, president, Central
State College, Wilberforce, a

Also, Hatvey Gantt) of Cl

S. C.; Cezil Poole, United” states !

Attorney for Northern fea:

Eli Ginzherg, of LG
sity; noe Robert L.

e ete Me awarded an-
nually to a Negro A Hifor dis-
tinguished achievement, will be

Byers MAOP field.
tary for Mississippi. The presen
tion will be made to Mrs. Hivers.!





awarded posthumously to Medgar

Nemes civil rights program in
Tess.
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‘Rights Bills May

Change fg 4
Of Ga. - - Sanders

By (UPI)

Gov. Gar] Sanders said Tuesda
that future events in Presiden
Kennedy’s civil rights campaig
could put him in a “different posi
tion” about party loyalty if Geor)
gia’s interest is at stake.

“I'm a loyal Democrat,” Sander
said, “I intend to stay in the part
That doesn’t necessarily mean th
future would not be such that
couldn't be put in a different posi:
‘pon.

“The people Of Georgia are my
numpbersone interest.”

id with a United

iy al reporter the
caee Te Contens ineluding
‘pemocrats, are angered by the

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himself had alread
so-called “public
proposal as an invas
property rights. :

“My position will be, I’m going
{to find some way, to present the
views of Georgia Democrats to the
national party,” Sanders said,

“y hope I can convinée them that
what they're eae to do is not in m








he best interest ot party.”

f ; ee fil “certainly
be: l pyithin the parly
for irgia Demo-

crats bel
a propesife
Georgia \
“Tbh

i DERG ie pavty ean push
all the. civil Fights legislation
through without some compromise,”

NAACP Delegates. .

“Meet In Chicago —
For Convention <.

From Wire and News Reports

CHICAGO — (UPI) — The WNa-
tional Association for the Advance-
ment of Colored People Monday
opened a convention which could
make ‘history. The top NAACP
spokesman said new mass demon-
strations would result from the
meetings.

Roy “Wilkins, executive secretary
of the NAACP, said at the star
of the 54th annual convention that
President Kennedy's civil rights
program “must be enacted.”

But Wilkins
could not be expected to go along
with the President's request for:a
moratorium on demonstrations for
equal rights while Kennedy's pro.
gram is being debated in Congress,

“This conven will stimulate
iBtrations besause
we will point @ut areas in which
progress has net yet been made,”
Wilkins said. |

The NA
cago could

convention in CGhi-
1e most significant
in the org on’s 54-year his-
tory, just as9R year 1953 has been
one of the Mi EE i... the
Nezroes’ a Luba
struggle,

The 1500 tog
spend six days





tielegates will
new plans

e for advancing (help @@nse of equal

rights anc racial Integration, They
do so at a time when the issue
dominates domestic politics arid
Congress is aboul to begin debate
on the most sweeping civil rights
PIO} ram. to. be laid belere tsi
oder (ines :
e avorn North, South, Bast, and
West, delegates by the huidreds
had converged on the Windy ity
at. the weekend for the convention.
The meeting is the first national
gathering of a civil rights organ!
zation since the birth of the 1863
“civil, rights crisis’ tn the streets
cl elsewhere,
missing, an de-
fulure

+ as employment,
é MH, school desegrega-.
tien, We ad ieeal action.

They are exploring ways ‘ahd
means of insuring. enactment of
pending civil rights legislalion:
“NOW OR NEVER”

Roy Wilkins, execulive sorre-
tary of the NAACP, told President
Kennedy two weeks ago that the
demandiration which inflamimed
(he coun) could not pe halted un-
{il equality for Negroes had bem
achieved,

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felon) one

warned Negroes ‘