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Roy Wilkins — Part 6
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The "Washington Star” on 4-2-57 mpage 3, section
A, carried an article entitled: 'UcClellan Plans Quiz of
Three for Slander of South," The article discussed the
charges made by Senator McClellan of the Senate Judiciary
Committee that two witnesses of the NAACP who were "brought
tn to slander the South" had committed perjury before the
ciurl rights hearing of the comnittee. Senator McClellan
had atated that the FBI had checked on the testinony and
found it false. It was noted that Roy Wilkins, Executive
Secretary of the NAACP had stated that the Senator's charge
was nerely another fact of the Southern tactic of delay.
62-99828-A "Washington
CLE mn we A ef
wel WA tweaeur
(8)
The "State Times," Jackaon, Miss. on 4-4-57
carried an editorial on page 8 entitled: "Let Not NAACP
Witnesses Be Spored." The editorial commented on the charges
made by Senator John McClellan of the Senate Judiciary
Committee that two witnesses representing the. NAACP had
committed perjury before the committee. It was noted that
Roy Wilkins, MAACP Erecutive Secretary, had taken a slap at
Senator McClellan calling his report "merely another
facet of the Southern tactic of delay, the purpose of which
ts to kill the civil rights bil1."
62-99828-A "State Times,”
4_ A_
(8)
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