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Martin Luther King, Jr. y jump out, do something, and then come back to hide within the group. King said he is a symbol of non-violence and that the press is not going to say what Levison said. He said the symbol will be weakened and it will put many Negroes ‘in doubt. He said he must do something that is a powerful act to unify forces and refute the press. Levison stated that if it had this result he would agree but that he 1s bothered by the idea that King would be accepting the logic of the press that if King can control 99%, and not the 1% who are violent, he is a failure. He said they must find a way in which they do not accept this otherwise King will never be able to do anything unless he always spiritually reaches a@ level where he hypnotizes every Negro alive King questioned how he could say that they can control the planned demonstrations in Washington,D.C. and at the same time conclude they are going to have 1% viclence Levison counseled that King can say that he can control his followers and is not undertaking to control everybody else. He said King could take the position that his followers are non- violent and will do what they must doy 7 , They agreed to discuss the matter in depthat a meeting in Atlanta, Georgia in King's church office on the morning of March 30, 1968.4 7 The same source advised on March 31, 1968, that on that date Stanley Levison commented on the meeting held in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 30, 1968. Levison's comments included the of following: At the Atlanta meeting they examined the whole Memphis— incident and came up with a new approach. "We are going back to Memphis. We are going to prove that you can have mass action in the streets". Martin Luther King had decided not to go - back to Memphis and not to go to Washington (for the Poor People's Campaign). It was the determination of the (SCLC) staff thet here