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campaign; your secondary task is (b) to move everybody one siep up. Each of the groups will require a somewhat different approach (to be _ discussed in the section on public relations). Where allies are concerned, your chief problems are fear, and apathy. We can't say Thie ie comethine voutll have mate a eee teeessm ee ne SS murh ahnnt faar SESE CEE EE Se to deal with depending on the situation. Alternative ways of earning a living and finding a roof can't always be created (e.g. Tent City in Tennessee). As to apathy, this may be due to bad planning, poor preparation, poor timing, and/or poor leadership. People declare a kind of mental sit-in when they are confronted with dictatorial leaders’ who keep the decision-making process clasped tightly to their own bosoms. People who don't trust the rank-and-file sufficiently to let them know what is happening as it develops and have a say in it, don't deserve to be trusted, and apathy sooner or later results. Partly it results because dictators talk a big game but don't produce--their failure to produce is due to the fact that they make mistakes, and this happens because they don't listen to anybody, Totalitarianism simply is not the moat efficient way of “getting things done* in the long run. ‘Sooner or later leaders become isolated, and the organization degenerates into a clique affair. - o oo ee, ge Strategy must be guided by your own situation, and cannot be taken out of a book. There are, however, some considerations you should take into account: 1. The political awareness of the Negro community. In some places the Negro community is so frightened, apathetic and/or lacking in civic awareness that the first step may be a voter registration campaign... Communication and concern can thereby be built about the major issues facing Negroes. 2. The number of Negroes in proportion to whites, ii there is a large number of Negroes in proportion to whites, the white community will feel especially threatened in a physical sense, The strategy will have to take this into account, and prepare for a longer and tougher campaign. Boycotts i1