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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1963)
Community House Serves As Headquarters For Washington March By JOHN J. GOLDMAN United Prni International A four-story yellow stucco house stands on a block of red brick, tenements near a playground in New York City's Harlem. There is no air conditioning against the August heat. In a sec ond floor reception room, a crepe paper mural of trees, flowers and hills is beginning to peel from one green wall. Only (he 10 telephones and a switchboard are brand new. In this building a commu nity house where social workers toiled Last month to keep children off the streets a handful of men and women are organizing what they intend to be the greatest civil rights demonstration in America's history. The building on West moth St Barnett Moves To Block Graduation Of Meredith JACKSOM. Miss. (UPI) - Gov. Ross R. Barnett has moved to block the graduation of James H Meredith from the University of Mississippi next Sunday. Mere dith termed Barnett's action "purely political." Barnett, who personally barred Meredith from the school for a time Last fall, asked the school to withhold the Negro's diploma until an investigation of certain anti-segregation statements Mere dith Is alleged to have made. Meredith is scheduled to re ceive his bachelor's degree Sun. day. Barnett said In a statement Monday he believed the 30-year. old Meredith violated a directive by university president John D. Williams which advised students and faculty against making pub lic statements about the descgre. gation crisis. Study Planned By Portland PORTLAND UP1 The Port land School Board Monday night named a 43-member committee, headed by a circuit judge, to determine if Negro students arc being denied equal rights in the public school system here. Circuit Judge Herbert M. Swab heads the committee, which includes leaders in business, labor, professional religious, and educa tion fields. Objectives were listed as re commendation of corrective steps if it is found Negro students are denied equal opportunities; to re commend what might be done to Improve achievement of students in culturally deprived areas, and to recommend w h a t the school system might do to eliminate un reasoned racial prejudice by school children. Barnett claimed Meredith has made a number of statements to newsmen which "clearly and un- mistakeably" violate the terms of the directive. Meredith, who was enrolled at Ole Miss last September with the backing of federal troops after a night of campus rioting, called Harrietts move "purely politi cal." "It might be pretty hard for Gov. Barnett's forces to win an election if I graduate," Meredith said when contacted at his dor mitory. Barnett la reportedly backing Lt. Gov. Paul B. Johnson against former Gov, J. P. Coleman in Mississippi's current governor's race. is die national office of a group called the "March on Washing ton for jobs and Freedom. The March, Aug. 28, a Wednes day, is designed to bring at least 100.000 persons to the capital. The marchers will include both Ne groes and Whites. The logistics problem would stagger a general. flow do you transport poverty- stricken Negroes from the delta Miss., outside Greenwood, Washington? And how, on a $05,000 budget, do you reach the unemployed, church groups, fraternities, labor unions and convince them to take part in a raily in the middle of the sum mer vacation season? March Leaders Experienced The march leaders over the years have had considerable ex perience organizing demonstra tions. They are the heads of the nation's most powerful civil rights groups. The official call for the march was issued July 12 by James Farmer, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality (COKE l: The Rev. Martin Luther King, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; John Lewis, chairman of the Stu dent Non Violent Coordinating Committee; Roy Wilkins, execu tive secretary of the National As sociation for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); Whit ney Young, executive director of the Urban League and A. Philip Randolph, president of the Negro American Labor Council. Randolph, head of the Brother hood of Sleeping Car Porters, is chairman of the march. "The purpose of the march is, by a massive, peaceful, and dem ocratic demonstration in the na tion's capital, to provide evidence of the need for tlie federal gov ernment to take effective and im mediate action to deal with the national crisis of civil rights and jobs that all of us, Negro and white, are facing." says the of ficial demonstration manual. "Politically the march is non partisan," the booklet stresses. President Kennedy is support ing the demonstration. "I look forward to being there," said the President at a recent news con ference. Mrrt With Officials The Negro leaders have quietly held conferences with represcn- lativs of the Justice Department and with local Washington offi cials. They discussed routes, com munications and above all, se curity. The march on Washington is planned as a peaceful demonstra tion and Negro leaders want to keep it that way. Even in casual conversations they refer to it as a "non-violent" march. CORE in Washington is busy recruiting 2,000 marshals to keep order. They will be directed by Members of the Guardians, a so ciety of Negro policemen on the New York City force. Current plans call for the marshals and guardians to train in crowd con trol and rehearse along the line of march several days before the demonstration. The District of Columbia's 2,800 man police force is taking no chances. All leaves have been cancelled for the day of the march. There appears to be a sincere desire on the part of civil rights leaders and the police to avoid any incident resembling Die bonus march of 1932 when an "army" of 20,000 veterans and their fam ilies came to Washington to de mand early payment of World War I bonuses. Police tried to move the dem onstrators from Treasury build ings, fighting broke out and two persons were killed. The demon stration ended when President Herbert Hoover called out the Army. GROUP MAPS PLANS What will happen in Washing ton 31 years later? These are the latest plans for the civil rights march: It is strictly a one-day affair. "The size and scope of this march make it imperative that alb par ticipants come in and go out on the same day," savs the organi zation manual. By 10 a.m. pickets will assemble at 51 churches throughout the capital. Congressmen and senators will be invited to address their home delegations. If no legislator appears, a small group of march ers will seek him out on Capitol Hill. While the marchers are meet ing their congressmen and Sen- tors, a group of leaders plus an unemployed white and colored worker will try to call on Presi dent Kennedy at the White House. They will seek to present the de mands of the demonstration which include passage by Congress of "effective and meaningful" civil rights legislation without fili buster; immediate desegregation of the nation's schools and a mas sive public works program to pro vide jobs for the unemployed. By noon, the marchers will be gin converging on the Ellipse, a park just south of the White House. There they will form state by state for the parade along Con sitution Avenue to tlie Lincoln Memorial. It is a distance of about one mile. There will be speeches at the memorial and a public address system will carry the speaker's words to the crowd, some of whom will be half a mile away. The speeches should last two and one-half hours. 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