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
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By Portland
PORTLAND UP1 The Port
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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.
By 5:30 p.m. just when most
government offices are letting out
for the day the demonstration
will be over.
PACE 10 B
Wednesday, August 14, 1963
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MARCH PLANNED Carl Maynard displays mimeo
graphed leffer at headquarters of "March on Washing
ton" in New York City. The civil rights projects hopes
to have 100,000 persons participating. UPI Telephoto
Washington State has 2,656
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