Box 17, Folder 13, Document 8

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ought they) d pass public ac-
ommodations legislation,” Dun-

ar said, adding that President
<ennedy and Vice President Lyn-
lon B. Johnson effectively
“argued their sincerity in this.”

Dunbar spoke at a dinner meet-
ing of the Greater Atlanta Council
on Human Relations, one of sev-
eral Atlanta speakers to report on
ihe recent series of White House
conferenees on race relations.

From 25 to 30 Atlanta citizens
were invited by the President to
attend the special meetings.

Dr. John W. Letson, superin-
tendent of Atlanta schools, said

day.

that school “‘drop-outs’’ pose a
serious racial problem because
drop-outs and, later, the “impact
of unemployment,” fall much
“more heavily on the Negro pro-
portion of the population.”

~ Wilkins

Educators attending one White |

House meeting, he said, recog-
nized the need for a “better guid-
ance program.”

The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, At-
lanta minister and an official of
of the Southern Leadership Con-
ference, said that President Ken-
nedy ‘“‘did not seek to evade the
issues’? at a meeting of religious
leaders.

President Kennedy urged reli-
gious leaders to serve on bi-racial
committees in their own com-
| munities, the ReV.shi- bernathy
| said. se ai

The Rev. Vine
also attended the
ligious leaders,
was almost “t of the
public relations ¢ ‘to these
meetings. There Teo many
people for him (President Ken-
nedy) really to talk to the people
| there.”

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Rights Senatoniisks

WASHINGTON (”)—Sen. Kenneth B. Keating, R-|

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outlaw

introduced Monday
all state and local or

a civil rights amendment to
dinances compelling or fos-

tering segregation in public accommodations.

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ments introduced by Keating | ‘
the Kennedy administration s civil | js

rights package.

Keating said
that the

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Constitution:

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in a Senate speech |
administration's public |
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for enforcement on the | an

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pposal applicable to
local segregation

; basing enforcement

on the J4th Amendment to the Con-
stitution as well. That amendment |

guarantees equal protection for

| eitizens.

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mittee on behalf of
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progres (hrexecutive secretary of
the National ‘Association for - the
Advancement of Colored People

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protest movement is Communist

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exclusion from voting boc
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coe inltLee, Govs. Ross Barnett of
a ssissippi and George Wallace of
abama charged that the mass

| Negro. demonstrations .were fol-

lowing a Communist pattern
Wilkins also took issue with those
who have said that Negroes were
hurting their own cause by con-
ished demonstrations; j
f é commented: “How can a
—which has been betrayed by ver
possible device, beaten back in the
crudest and most overt fashion, and
distorted in high. sounding -misre-
tee tations by’ suave kinfolk of
e mob-how can a cause in such
condition be hurt by crying out of
one suffer... ,?” .
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. Richard R D-Ga., lead-
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lish Parl it, just as
day protest their
ation in the Misslssip
Carolina legislatures:
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tinued, “the resolute determin
eae aa: our INGA ceitizens
1e civil rights 8 const
exemplarly ‘Americal ‘ janet bes
“Tf we desire to kill off
duct and to fashion & Nation of
cautioug crawlers,” he said, “we
should cease the teaching of Ameri-
ean history.” ~


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