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Del.occ LITED STATES GO INMENT Mohr Wick DATE: 8-22-66 Mr.I : D. C. Morrel ALL HFORMATION CONTAINED IEREN IS UNCLASSIRIED .Hrr: MEET THE PRESS CHANNEL 4 TV CATE Q/a/00 BYSPUDTA AUGUST 21, 1966 the FBI or the Director by any of the participants.. Martin Luther King, Jr., stated the rioting must er out. demonstrations must continue as the latter serve to call attention is. u : : and bring the parties to the conference table. Roy wilkins agreet. will: I Dr. King and noted that adherence to law and order is not a handir p. King felt the injunction issued against him in Chicago was unconstitutir:! lut he would abide by it because he has been having discussions w.th i: : leaders and real estate men and others of good will. He noted the iat: 3f the North toward the Negro, differed from that of the South in t+at i: t t South the hatred of the mob was aided by law enforcement which i: nct 'r in the North. As to the Civil Rights Bill, King felt it would not ch. gc 1 attitudes which eventually would bring about the aims of the civil : sght: , leaders. King decried programmatic action around nonviolent activity, I noting there was a difference between aggressive and defensive nonviolence. Floyd McKissick felt nonviolence was something out of the past and that : the Negro would not stand idly by when attacked although he believed in nonviolence until he was attacked.. 0 Stokley Carmichael stated Negroes fighting in Vietnam are. 43 : hired mercenaries because the military services intimate to the Negro : that a method to improve his lot in life would be to join the military wiich necessarily involves killing people. Carmichael noted that he would no:. 1 join the military and stated he was a citizen of the United States. He said + : he would not go to Vietnam and he urged others not to go. James Meredith ! took issue with Carmichael stating that he supported war in Vietnam but 100- 44 4080- not the Administration's conduct of it. not recorded 3 1 - Mr. Wick JORIGINAL FILED 1 - Mir. DeLoach 1956 1054 SER an BGH:par (6)