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NAACP Opens Nat'l Convention
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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, erred ep pee
Also, Harvey Gantt 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
nifor dis-
tinguished achievement,
will be
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to Medgar
Right Bills May
Change fg A,
Of Ga. - - Sanders
By (UPI)
Gov. Carl Sanders said Tuesda
that future events in Presiden
Kennedy’s civil rights campaig
, additional
dent's civil rights program in
that he
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 DenmiOcrats to the
national party,” Sanders said,
“y hope I can convinee them that
what theyre eae to do ae not in yy
the bet Tier 5 a party.”
ander see i “certainly
thn the party
could put him in a “different posij
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
i I al reporter the
f ith Moon ine¢luding
‘pemocrats, are angered by the
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all the avit™ 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 warned Negrote *
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
dem@lstrations because
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 employnien?,
H, school desegrega-
aid ieeal action.
exploring ways ‘aie
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
demonsiration which inflamined
(he coun) could not pe halted un-
{il equality for Negroes had bem
achieved,
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tion, any
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