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Jackson may well be out of step with the main trend of Negro feeling, but he notes with satisfaction that some civil rights leaders, in the aftermath of this summer's racial riots, have called for a moratorium on mass demonstrations...
...North, with their impacted Negro slums, that the easing of pressures is most urgent-and visible. Detroit has spent two-thirds of a $90 million bond issue on new and improved schools in Negro neighborhoods. A biracial committee quietly formed in Cleveland has won a six-month moratorium on demonstrations for that city's new school superintendent, to give him "time to implement his program." In Los Angeles, an energetic new urban-affairs director named Sam Hammerman has brought about a close understanding between civil rights groups and the school board...
...meetings. But King's trip was not entirely fruitless: while in town he joined other national civil rights generals in a summit conference. At the end, N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins released a statement calling on Negroes "voluntarily to observe a broad curtailment, if not total moratorium, of all mass marches, mass picketing and mass demonstrations until after Election Day, next Nov. 3." The reason was plain enough: the leaders figured that by calling a halt to Negro militancy, they might stop the growth of the white backlash vote for Barry Goldwater in November. The Negroes' energy, they...
...within hours, several of the more aggressive civil rights leaders-including James Farmer of CORE-declared their unwillingness to go along with any curtailment or moratorium on demonstrations. And, representing the worst kind of element, Black Nationalist Leader Malcolm X had his say all the way from Cairo, where he showed up as a self-appointed delegate to a Pan-African conference. Negroes, he counseled, should demand "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life." Dealing with the aggressiveness of some Negro youths and the ambitions of some Negro spokesmen, the responsible Negro...
...while King and Wagner were closeted in Gracie Mansion, James Farmer, head of the Congress of Racial Equality, and John Lewis, National Chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, both announced they could not endorse the call of four other negro leaders for a moratorium on demonstrations until after the November elections...