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Stanley Levison — Part 9
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Martin Luther King, Jr. _ _
changed King's thinking. King is going back to Memphis
on Tuesday (April 2, 1968) and there will be a big march on
Friday {April 5, 1968). The Memphis incident was caused by
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He, Levison, made the point that they could not let
"a couple of kids" keep "mass action" from being their weapon.
As for controlling the Washington, D.C. emnsteseade
King knows he can control the youth. What has to be done is
go to the high schools and tell them what the establishment
wants them to do. Once they grasp this there is no chance of
anything happening. What they (the SCLC) are afraid of in
Washington is a double cross from Stokley Carmichael and the
answer to that is that "our job” (the SCLC") is not to stop violence
but to be non-violent themselves. "Our position" is that "we"
are going to go on because to be able to march inthe streets is
"our most important tool" and are not going on the streets because
it may start violence. "Why do we have to be afraid of riots’.
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