Reader Ad Slot
Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.
Abner J Mikva — Part 2
Page 84
84 / 99
LF
t a ss
CG 100-41324
DETrejh | _ uN COMRDENTIAL.
\ ;
person of Abner TyAukva, * You gave support to the bigots
of South Chicago who a abaes Uva Abner should be more’
like you.’ They called Abne ikva - Martin Luther, Mikva.
In Spite of your lies and v ications of, me to the I:V;I,
Board, I am still a member of that Board and was recently.
returned as one of the four Chicago representatives to the
National Bard of the Americans For Democratic Action (A,D.A,.),
where Negroes are sorely needed to help‘shape domestic and
foreign policy for presentation’ ‘to various governmental
bodies «I 1 oa 7 ;
“There ‘are, so many ingidents I could allude to Sin: order
to spell out your role in civil rights, Your crowning
achievement, for me, was the role you‘ played in getting me
to come, to the "bargaining table” with Dick ‘Newhouse, I
had no idea about’ the various ways in which you two were
connected, I am more aware now.of those relationships,
both’ politically and organivationally, as subtle as they.
may seem to bs, I was not aware that, prior to our first
meeting on that Sunday at your office, that you were. seen:
entering the mayor’s office on no Jess than four occasions,
ALONE! Now, Bill; ordinarily, political’ independents and
reai”™ civil rights leadsrs DO NOT enter the Readauax ters
of the. eneny ALORE. aT
“J
Iwo main issues were at stake, “politically, | at nat’
juncture, ‘The dver-riding one was'the Bond Issue which. chad
been conceived at seme Xorth Shore suburban conclave. sandy, us
had to be sold‘to the electorate, The other was the..Mikva~
O'Hara campaign,which national prominence as. 2 Struggle. between
#021 indépandeat politics, and machine-politiés, \-From the
White House down to City Hall and-to’the Korshak,- Holman...
dynasties in the 2nd Congressional District ; the’ word was.
out: MIKVA MUST. BE“DEFEATED, To win, Mikva néeded a strong,
well-known, independent Negro Candidate who could not only
° win’ but could ‘raise the anqunt.of. participation in the Negro
F
ur ‘ Mead ~ o
soe “eo
- 44 -
Community corrections
No user corrections yet.
Comments
No comments on this document yet.
Bottom Reader Ad Slot
Bottom Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.
Continue Exploring
Agency Collection
Explore This Archive Cluster
Broad Topic Hub
Topic Hub
investigation which
party does
Related subtopics
Subtopic
Subtopic
Subtopic
Subtopic
Subtopic