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Ses & el alae age op ae yy be ae Be A Paul Harvey news ey ong on 7/2/68 by General ~ Features Corporation, Los Angeles, Calif., spoke of the abortive poor jg: . people's march on Washington, the failure of the militants and the -. final emergence of the responsible Negro leaders. He quoted Bayard , Rustin, Negro scholar, as saying that Negroes of the prominence of | ' Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young and Philip Randolph, with the help of others, had led 2 million Negroes out of the slums by encouraging them to work. He then mentioned the NAACP convention in Atlantic City (date not given) where Wilkins told a group there advocating violence that they “ought to be ashamed!" Harvey concluded that self-made, successful Negroes were beginning to preach what they practiced. New Jarsey 157-8428-A General Features Corporat: 7/2/68 The references listed below in the file captioned "Congress of Racial Equality" indicated that Roy Wilkins was a participant in the anmal CORE convention held 7/3-7/68 in the Sheraton - Columbus Motor Hotel, Columbus, Ohio. He spoke at sessions on 7/4-6/68 and at a press conference on 7/5/68, He urged moderation and stated that the NAACP would not support the proposal for a black nation. REFERENCE SEARCH SLIP PAGE NUMBER 100-225892-989 encl.p.3 (oy 100-225892-10-42 p.1,2 (ox -55 p.1,4,10,40,49,50,51, | (6,187 71, 84,86 ,99 . : ’ fe rel On 7/31/68 Roy Wilkins appeared before the Equal Oppor ear ey In An Urban Society Subcommittee of the Republican Platform Committee _in Miami and made a statement as chairman of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, 2027 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. He _», stated that the nation needed a social and economic bill of rights which "guaranteed all basic rights to every Anerican. (Statement set out in further detail) a (continued)