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Roy Wilkins — Part 6
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The "Washington City News Service" release of
3-22-57 under the heading, "Wilkina," quoted parte of a
telegram made public by Roy Filkins, NAACP Erecutive
Secretary, tn reply to statenents allegedly made by White
House apootninents secretary, Bernard M. Shanley, at
Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford, N.J. Shanley
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had "done a tremendous amount of danage and has set us back
nany years." He indicated that many Negro atudents had
severed their relationships with Southern colleges. Wilkins’
reply stated that there were more Negroes enrolled tin
Southern Universities than at the time of the ruling in
1954.
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The "Washington Star” on 3222-57 carried an article
datelined Chicago, entitled: "Culture Conflict Called Cause
of Race Issues." The article discussed the views expressed
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and Zcononic Relations Boards of the Methodist Church in
which Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the NAACP, partici-
pated. J. Oliver Emerich, Editor of the UMcComh Enterprise -
Journal, McComb, Miss., who told the group that integration
problen’ required patience, was quoted as stating. "conflicts
of culture are the cause of racial problems not racial hatred,
and "exrtrenista in both North and South are doing great
danage." In his reply Wilkins said the NAACP asks only that
the South admit its system is wrong and try to Change tt,
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