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who carried a sign reading
Housing for All Diplomats" He
explained that his protest was
against discrimination involv-
ing Asian diplomats.
Stay on Sidewalk
The Northeast contingent
marched west on H street to
First. street, then over to K
street, west on K to Fifth street
south on Fifth to H, then west
on New York avenue to Lafay-
cite Park. This unit, too. had
a police escort and held to the
sidewalk, marching behind their
monitors.
They were TO converge on
Lafayette Park opposite the
White House for a prayer by
Bishop Smallwood Williams.
president OF the District unit
of Southern Christian Leader
ship Conference.
After the prayer, according
to the march leaders. the DEM
onstrators were to walk east
along Pennsylvania avenue to
Fifteenth street, south by the
Treasury Building and then
east along Pennsylvania ave-
nue. to the park and District
Building at Fourteenth and E
streets NV.
Walter N. Tobriner, president
Of the District Board Of Com
missioners, said he would greet
the marchers at the steps of
the District Building and speak
to them for several minutes.
HObsOn Speech
Mr.. Tobriner's remarks are to
be followed by talks by Julius
Hobson, chairman Of the WASH
ington Congress of Racial
Equality and originator Of the
demonstration; the Rev. e.
Franklin Jackson, president Of
the District branch Of the Ma
tional Association for the Ad-
vancement Of Colored People,
and the Rev. Walter Fauntroy,
regional director of SCLC.
After the District Building
activity, the demonstrators were
scheduled to walk four blocks
east to the Justice Department
where Attorney General Robert
F. Kennedy was to be invited
out to address the group.
Principal target of the mass
protest, Mr.. Hobson said, is the
District Building to push for
regulations outlawing racial
discrimination in District hous-
ing and employment.
The appearance at the Jus
tice Department Is to protest
what Mr.. Hobson describes as
blatant job discrimination"
against Negroes in that depart
ment.
Ministers in March
Leaflets advertising the
march demand Of Mr.. Presi-
dent: mo Funds for Apart
held States. Don't Play Poll
tics with Human Rights. "
Some demonstrators wore black
arm bands to express out
rage at the assassination Of
NAACP leader Medgar w.
Evers. slain this week by q snip
er in jackson, Miss.
The demonstrators repre-
sent CORE, Women Strike for
Peace, Americans for Demo-
cratic Action. NAACP, the Peace
Action Center, the Committee
for a Sane Nuclear Policy. the
SCLC, the Federation Of Civic
Associations, Pacifist Fellow
ship. Democratic Central Com
mittee and the Student Peace
Union.
Also in the demonstration
we're 20 white ministers rep
resenting Presbyterian and
Episcopal churches in the Dis
trict and individual members of
Protestant and Roman Catholic
faiths.
The demonstrators were TO
disperse between 5 and $40
pm. Mr.. Hobson said.
I'VE have planned and in
tend to carry out q peaceful
demonstration with as little in
convenience and discomfort to
the public as possible" Mr..
Hobson emphasized. I'VE have
discussed our plans with police
and expect police TO help US
maintain law and order and
deal with any undesirable stu
alton with objectivity."
The demonstrators are under
the supervision Of more than
so monitors who are vet
Grams of CORE-sponsored Free
dom Rides and sit-in demon
STATIONS in the South.
Monitors In Crowd
1.-THE monitors will be spread