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7 co RE: DESEGREGATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE black community to combat a white racist power structure. The paper stated that seme of the black leaders were charging that the Police Department. used excessive force in making arrests on November 21, 1969, and that the Board of Education had agreed te three separate actions which would give Negro leaders a greater voice in the administration of Memphis Public Schools, namely, to @ppoint two Negro advisore ti ti Peer4d; to work for legislation that would provide for Negro representation on the board and a study of the schoo) system's administrative structure to be made with the goal of appointing a Negro Assistant Superintendent and a Negro Coordinator, and that advisors to make this study would be appointed by December 1, = oe — eee _——— 1969. RE The paper reported that Roy-Wilkins, International Executive Secretary of NA?CP, while passing through Mempnis, eon Kovember 22, 1969, had “expressed confidence in the Negro leadership of the NAACP in Memphis.” ok The paper stated that Jesse Epps, Internationa] Representative of AFSCME denied that the ending of the School issue would hurt his campaign against St. Joseph Hospital in which he was seeking recognition of AFSCME. He said that until this time his union had put a higher priority on the educational issue than on the St. Joseph strike, Mr. Epps accused the Memphis Police Department of excessive force in effecting November 2], 1969, arrests. The paper quoted the Memphis Police Director Frank C. Holloman as stating that the police had movies and pictures of students arming themselves with bricks, rocks and bottles during the demonstration activities, particularly on November 21, 1969, described above, and that when orders 3. CONF AL + ty te gh w Mi: Fo aang a re nim meni ee ge oe