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American Friends Service Committee — Part 22
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RE: PEACE CARAVAN, 1969
AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE
DRAPT RESISTANCE UNION OF MEMPEIS (DRUM)
revolution is necessiry, he peusec. "Yeah, I guess so, eventuclir’
he says with a puzzlec look."
As recently es Avgust 31, 1962, a first source acvised
thet the DRUK moverent, described above, grev out of @ formztion
of & peace group at. henphis sponsored by the Peece Caravan, 1968,
of the American Fraend: Servace Connittes , bhich vez formed
primzrily @cong Memphis State University (MSU) students during
the sumrer of 1962, Tne DRUK group headed by ¥Yictor Smith is
ar, outgrowth thereof.
Source one stated that the DabM group was originally
scheduled to have a demonstration a. noon, Wednesazy, August 27,
1969, at Southland Mall, a large shcpping center in Whitehaven,
a suburb of Merphis, Tennessee, .ut did not do so.
*
that a small group of DRUM denonstrators did at approximately
7:55 a.m., August 27, 1969, go to Central High School, Memphis,
and distribute draft resistance literature, including a copy of
the pamphlet “A generation in Search of a future" by George
Wald, Harvard Universit y Professor.
(A characterization of SDS is set ‘out in th
Section of this communication.) _ ae © Appendix
[. , oo. oe ; . a i en ml ae aay rear mimttee
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ior to their demonstrations,
- according to qeniees: on Mes, at the Halt and Halt,
Doe Sat rt ce
Bee et ee PE Rey advised on August 27, 1969,
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