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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 26
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-(Phote In Picture Section)
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell
{D.-N. ¥.) charged the Army
with restoring segregation in a
speech last night in Madison
Square Garden at a civil rights
rally. '
The rally was sponsored joint-
ly by the Broaherhood of Sleep-
in Car Porters and the National
Assn. for the Advancement of
lored People. -
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‘| [Powel ldirected hic attack ani
esident Eisenhower. He said
had “documented evidence”
intimate friends of President
bringing back segregation.”
“Elsenhewer is new Presi-
@ent in exile; a commander-
stripped of his stars, a leader
ef the peopic, insulated and
feolated from them, the mest
eommanding figure ef the
free werld, captured by his
own palace guard,” Pevwell
declared.
“The forces of reaction, ob-
struction, segregation, white
eitizens cenncils, Eastland-
fam, have reached out with
palace guard and stepped
progres.”
- Autherine Lucy, expelled Uni-
versity of Alabama Negro stu-
dent, another speaker, said “In
Septembey I expect to be beck
with my attorneys at the Uni-
versity of Alabama.”
Others speakers were Mrs.
Eleanor R ooseyelt and the Rev.
Martin Luther King who led the
bus boycotrtrtMontzomery, Ala.
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