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Vet Loe ag rs ee AE The "Da ty Yorker" on 8-23»55 carried | an article on page 4, entitled "NAACP Head Says Politicos Step School — . Law in N.C." The article disclosed that following a speech - by Roy Wilkins, NAACP Executive Secretary, before the a Counctl] of Presbyterian Men of the Synod of Catawba, * at Gada Tt «a yr the Prasitdeant of the Morth Caralina Wa Ap or Us keg awew ey wrew JS fF Ue erwourre "i aewei wr wit ww Pee 8 we received a telegram urging hin to "eautton your man Wilkinae.™ Wilkins declared in hia speech that desegregated schoole would already exist in many North Carolina connuntties if the / chotce had been left to private citizens instead of the -f politicians. Wiikins also charged that Assistant Attorney i. General of N.C., Beverly Lake, was the Attorney General of the white people only. Wilkins asserted that he had personally been disillustoned about race relations in North oe Carolina. <A photograph of Wilkins appgared in the article. 62-101987-36-A "DW", 8-23- (10) (Negro Synod of Northern Presbyterian Church) On 928-55 Mr. Caldwell of the. Civil Rights Sectton of the Department of Justice advised that a conference wae held in the office of Assistant Attorney General Olney on 9-7-55, which was attended by representatives of the NAACP, Those present included Thurgood Marshall, Roy Wilkins and Mre, Ruby urley, Southeastern representative of the NAACP at Birninghan, Ala. The conference concerned the situation tnuvolving colored people tn Misstestppt. During the conference Mrs. Hurley nade the allegation that there was a Bureau agent in Mississippi uho was formerly on the police force and the colored people felt they could get no assistance from thia agent and would not talk with him or go to see hin, ee