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Chicago, asking their cooperation
in the organization of MARCH
ON THE CONVENTIONS MOVE
MENT FOR FREEDOM NOW!"
"The millions of Negroes who are
denied the right to vote in the
South are appealing to the people
of Los Angeles and Chicago to
represent them before the Con-
ventions," the Negro leaders said.
eve believe that if the candidates
and parties expect Negroes and
their white friends to have any
confidence in them, they must
make a fortnight declaration that
racial segregation and discrimina-
ton in any form is unconstitu-
tional, un-American, and immoral.
The Supreme Court decision on
Indignation can become the law
of the land, and the elementary re-
quirements of democracy be salts
fled, only if both parties repudi-
ate the minorities in their ranks
who have combined in Washington
to thwart the Supreme Coure de-
cision and the cry for justice of
the Negro people"
In passing a hollow civil rights
bill this year, "Congressmen If
both parties conspired to deprive
the Negro of his right to vcte,"
the leaders said. Therefore, both
parties must be held responsible
for this sellout not only of the
Negro people but of American de-
mocracy as whole"
Randolph and King declared
that mo candidate for the presi-
dency has measured up to the cour-
age of the Negro students in the
South. All of them have looked
the other way when their parties
have tolerated racists or made
deals with racists. We are going
to send a list of questions to all
the candidates. We are going to
demand specific answers and a
specific program Of implementa-
ton. The time Of compromise and
empty generalities is over. The
time for action is now, The he
roic students of the South have
shown the way and the least we
can do is to carry their demands,
and those of all Negroes who are
denied the right to vote, directly
to the political conventions
Statement by A. Phillip Ran
dolph and DR.. Martin Luther King
ia. regarding "March On The Con-
ventions Movement For Freedom
now" y
A civil rights crisis rocks the
nation. We are on the Threshold
of a new decade in which the mass
es of Negro people are coming
onto the stage of history and de-
handing their freedom now!
We have witnessed the first
stage of a revolution in the South
against segregation and discrimi-
nation. Heroic Southern students
have injected their very bodies into
the non-violent struggle for free
dom and have declared undying
battle against Jim Crow. In re-
cent years, scores of thousands
of Negroes and their white allies
have converged on the nations
capital to demand an end to grad
ualism in all Of its forms.
These historic actions have been
expressions of the profound polit-
ical and social Illustration of our
people. Their demands have been
met with the condescending smile
Of inert government, by incredible
political deception and double
dealing, by an ingrained indiffer-
ence to the democratic ideals Of
equality and freedom. Everywhere
we look, the cry for justice is an
swered by a shrug, by business-as-
usual. Government, far from meet
ing the needs of the times, has
retreated. Scool Indignation has
virtually ground to a halt. Six
years after the Supreme Court de-
cision, only 6% Of the Southern
Negro students attend integrated
classes. Congressman Of both par
ties this year conspired to deprive
the Negro Of his right to vote,
for the 1860 Civil Rights Bill OBJ
structs the voting process by plac-
ing overwhelming burdens Of pros
ecution on the Negro rather than
on those who Cypress him. Both
parties must be held responsible
for this sellout, not only Of the
Negro people, but Of American de-
mocracy as q whole.
In our travels throughout the
length and breadth Of this country