Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-02
RIGHTS
Demonstration Advice
Outlines Legal Limits

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lease Of persons illegally ar
rested during civil rights dem
onstrations. The peculiar use
of school authorities as restric-
tive measures" would also be-
examined, he added.
Mr.. Greenberg indicated that
the conference resulted also
from the legal problems in
volved in the mass demonstra-
tions in the South. He pointed
out that the NAACP, even
though it has not been direct
ing all the mass demonstra-
tons, is now handling the cases
of more than 5000 individuals
who have been arrested. The
Legal Defense Fund will con-
tinue to handle all such cases
as long as our resources hold
out and the public supports
U.S." The NAACP and the
NAACP Legal Defense and Ed
ucational Fund are separate,
automous organizations, he
emphasized.
The 14th Amendment adop-
ted in 1868, gave American Ne
groes the civil rights they con-
tinue to seek today, Mr.. Ming
said in an interview after his
speech at the conference.
He urged the 80 NAACP at
torneys attending the confer
ence to adopt the same tough,
political and legal positions the
trainers Of the 14th Amend
ment displayed in 1885,"
Discussing recent Supreme
Court decisions in the sit-in
cases, Mr.. Ming observed: 1--WE
are almost back TO 1868 and we
may get there In another three
or four years we are close
but still not completely at the
point where the courts enforce
the 18th Amendment.
"NAACP lawyers are engaged
In a titanic effort to meet the
demands and rights of a people
who have been denied their
heritage" he said. AT the same
time we must maintain a rea-
sonably ordered society. Chaos
and nihilism have no attrac-
tiveness for the black man.
The Negroes ambitious is for
full and complete participation
in the political, economic and
social life Of this country"
Deprived Of weapons
The Negro protest movement
has developed. Mr.. Ming ex-
planned, because Negroes have
been deprived Of the country's |
traditional social, political and
legal weapons to effect social
change.
"Our people have developed
their own means Of political
and social protest." he added.
The Fourteenth Amendment
was drafted because congress
sional conservatives recognized
that States had the power to
use State law 70 impose upon
Negroes q second-class some
thing which was, In some IN
stances, worse than slavery :"
Originally, Congress believed
the Thirteenth Amendment
freed the Negro but the in
famous Black Code passed by
the various Southern States
proved this opinion wrong, he
said.
I'VE have got to keep saying
that nobody who looks like, acts
like or pretends to be a State
officer can use any State power
whatever to continue to deny
our people access to places of
public accommodation and op-
portunity," Mr.. Ming said in
the interview.
Correct application of the
Fourteenth Amendment would
have made the sit-in demon
STATIONS unnecessary because
in this instance there was "a
willing customer, an unwilling
merchant and an unwilling po-
Ice orrifer or judge" said Mr..
Ming.
Labelling himself a conserva-
tive. Mr.. Ming said he would
invite the support of Senator
Goldwater, Republican Of Ari-
iona, who only wants to 20
back to the days of (President)
Mckinley"
Il want to go back to the
days Of (President) johnson
and the efforts Of hundreds of
thousands of black people to
complete a job that was not
completed in 1866" he re-
marker.
Mr.. Ming said he reminded
the conference that "segrega-
ton has been demonstrated by
the court Of the land to be
wrong, illegal. immoral and
unconstitutional"
THE Negro has survived 200
years Of slavery and 100 years
of segregation and he's hardly
likely to sit quietly back and
let his rights be continually
denied him." he said he told
the conference