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DR. KING'S plan: ‘Disrupt a city.”

ATLANTA — Riot-torn cities of the
North now face a new threat of Negro
disruption.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr., is organizing what he calls “civil
disobedience on a massive scale.” Here
are some of the things he talks about:

e A march on Washington by thou-
sands of unemployed Negroes who
would camp out in the capital city,
somewhat like the “bonus marchers” of
1932.

e A “hungry people's sit-in” at the
Department of Labor in Washington.

e Sit-ins of unemployed to block
gates of factories in many cities.

e School boycotts on a weekly basis.

The idea, as Dr. King put it, is
“forcefully to cripple the operations of
an oppressive society,” He said:

“To dislocate the functioning of a
city without destroying it can be more
effective than a riot because it can be
longer-lasting, costly to the society. but
not wantonly destructive.

“Moreover, it is more difficult for
Government to quell it by superior
force.”

Dr. King revealed his latest plan on
August 15 at a convention of the South-
ern Christian Leadership Conference
(SCLC) which he heads. His listeners,
mostly Negroes, cheered him.

It was the most militant speech vet
by the Negro minister who in the past
has preached nonviolence, and has
worked mostly in the South. Announcing
his new tactics in the North, he said:

“Taking into account that rage,is a
powerful fact of life in the ghetto, the
mechanical application of tactics of non-
violent marches and meetings which
could work among Southem Negroes be-
comes unsound,”

“ngust 17, Dr. King said ”

Johnson in the 1968 presidential election
“unless he changes his conduct” of the
war in Vietnam.

“We will go all out to take a stand
in voting for someone who is against
the war in Vietnam,” he said.


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