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wisch are generally all white to schools which are generally all colored and vice ver
*$ It t'as irdicated that he also was involved in a similar type of school boycott in Bostr
(-37-4-5-23, 21; 154-4-34-64, 56; 147-6-34-A (WCNS); 100-3-116-1546; 100-442529-:
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Civiliar. Review Boards:.
W.th regard to the New York City riots last summer, in an interview
over Wc3s on 8-9-64, wilkins urged a civilian review board made up of reputable a
Cistinguished citizans to handle police matters. Wilkins believed that the Harlem ri.
were due to the refusal of the police department to handle the shooting of "Powell' b.
Liautenant Gilligan in anything but a routine manner. Wilkins claimed that everyone.
Irsicm felt they had been done wrong in the Lieutenant Gilligan matter. Wilkins, o!.
cc.!rse, was referring to the riots which were precipitated after the shooting of a
young colored hoodlum by a police lieutenant. (100-3-115-2150)
A frican Policy:.
The 11-29-64 issus of the "New York Times" indicated that 6 of the
Qrurzinent American Negro leaders including such individuals as Roy Wilkins; Jame.
's.msn of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; and
-iney M. Young, Jr., of the National Urban League, indicated to the Administrat
t. .t they favored a comylete revision of the United States policy in Africa including
t : :7.thdrawal of support from Premier Moise Tshombe of the Congo. In a letter t
tl a President they indicated that the "Mercenaries and other external forces,
i:.c.uding those of the United States, should disengage from all military commitment
uil such time as aid can be given in the context of requests from the Governments
..3 Congo, acting in concert with the African Governments represented in the
from resolutions pa.sed by the American Negro Leadership of Africa held in
September, 1964, in Washington. (105-116631)
The NACP:
The national officers of the NAACP are:
Bishop Stephen Gill Spottswood, Chairman, Board of Directors
Arthur B. Spingarn, President
Jesse H. Turner, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors
(Previous Board membar replacing Dr. Ulysses S. Wiggins as
Vice-Chairman)
Roy Wilkins, Executive Director (Title changed fron Executive
Secretary)
Alfred Baker Lewis, Treasurer
Dr. Harry J. Greene, Assistant Treasurer
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