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wi gery aft hee + wet rs 4 a) oon . a. UCFED STATES DEPARTMENT OK )STICE me, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION New York, New York . In Reply, Please Refer te June 5, 1968 File No. oo. Bufile (100-438794) OF RET Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Racial Matters A confidential source, -who has furnished reliable ’ information in the past, learned on June 3, 1968, that on that date, Stanley Levison and Harry Belafonte discussed Bayard Rustin's statement crystallizing the demands on Congress and the Administration of the Poor People's Campaign (PPC) issued by Rustin on June 2, 1968, as a "Call to Americans of Good Will", which is a call for support of the Solidarity Day march of the campaign, June 19, 1968. Levison was critical of Rustin's program describing it as less than what the President's Commission on Civil Disorders recommended. Levison, according to the source, claimed that Rustin has eliminated civil disobedience and a guaranteed income from the program originally presented and that it could be said that Rustin has swept away Martin Luther King's program. He said Rustin has brushed aside Ralph Abernathy, SCLC President, with Abernathy's consent. Belafonte stated that he is going to take a firmer position, may have to tell Abernathy he cannot support him and may resign from the SCLC Board. Levison said he is going to tell Abernathy that he is changing his relationship toe more distant one. @ . GLESSIFIED AND @ Bae J@n Ul Le | EXTENDED BY. --— ; ALL INFAPMATTON CONTAINED REASON FOR EXTENSION os a HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED ene FOR . ATE OF REVIEW F .Ce EXCEPT WHERE SHOWN DATE OF RE 0: SAK, “ow 54 THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS NEITHER RECOMMENDATIONS NOR CONCLUSIONS OF THE FEI. }f JS THE PROPERTY OF THE FR! AND IS LOANED TO YOUR AGENCY: 1T AND ITS CONTENTS ARE NOT TO BE DISTRIBUTED OUTSIDE YOUR AGENCY. « i Man At +1 Py ; Meo im Robe Anal ye APOPOPT TTT AGUNCIES AMP TITIES TICES \ VIsPp RY ROUTING oo} og. 4, & t rt eer Y LEON | eT Te rein ws. a VAL tee MK ic ae FAL Ler [oD- 21 i iiNet IT \ —e