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OPTIONAL POXM NO. 10

MÄT 1982 EDITION

06, GEN, PIG. NO. 21

UNITED STATES

Memorandum

: Mr. Mohr

FROM : C. D. DeLoach

SUBJECT: FAY WELLS

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DATE: 11-21-64

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Holmes -

Gandy -

Captioned individual telephonically contacted my oifice at 10:15 a.m.

today, Saturday, November 21, and spoke with SA Hanning who was on duty.

Miss Wells advised that she was one of the 18 women reporters

who were in on the interview with ir. Hoover. She stated that she understands

that Martin luther Ring now wants to come in and talk to the Director. She

wanted to know it she could cover this interview and in the event she could not

cover the interview itself, she wanted to know if she could talk to both the

Director and King immediately after the meeting if there was one.

Manning advised Miss Wells that the Director's schedule was

very full and that Mr. Hoover was leaving the city on official business in the

near future and he was unaware of any such appointment and could not be of

assistance to her. iViss Wells was very insistent and stated she would probably

call back again Monday to check on any new developments concerning this

matter.

RECOMMENDATION:

None. For information.

This document is prepared in response to Hour request and is not for dissemi-

ration notsian your Committee.

Its usedis limited to official proceedings by

1 - Mr. Tolsoner Commi'se and the content may no

•De disclosed to unauthorized person

1

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Rosenel without the express anovat of the FBI.

1 - Mr. Jones

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Mr. Tolson -

Mr. Belmont

Mr. Mohi _

Mr. DeLoach

November 3, 1964

Mr. Casper -

Mr. Callahan

Mr. DeLoach:

Mr. Conrad -

Mr. Evans -

RE:

MATTHEW

MATRIMAN OF THE BOARD

O CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY

Mr. Gale -

Mr. Rosen 1

Mr. SuBiyank

Mr. Tavel -

Mr. Trotter -

As you know, there has been a bloody power struggle

Tele. Room

within the Curtis organization aimed at deposing our good friend, Joe

Miss Holmes

Culligan, Chairman of the Board, and, until about a week or so ago,

Miss Gandy

President. Bitter charges of mismanagement were Hurled at Culligan

by

a dissident group of top officials headed by_Claj*Blair, Jr., Editor in Chief of "The

Saturday Evening Post" and all Curtis magazines, and Marvin Dr/Kantor, $80, 000

a year Senior Vice President in charge of the magazine división. In a nutshell,

Blair and Kantor have been fired; Normansitter, Assistant Managing Editor, and

Thomas R. Marvel,

Chief of Editorial Production, have been suspended. Culligan,

who has been actively looking for a top executive to assist him in running the affairs

of Curtis for sometime, resigned as President while retaining his job as Chairman

of the Board. It is expected that a new President will be named soon.

# This top management revolt, which has been brewing for some months,

erupted openly during the early part of October when the press reported that fifteen

top officials in a letter to the Board of Directors accused Culligan of mismanagement.

At the present time,

it appears that Culligan has retained the confidence of the Board

of Directors, has seized the initiative, and is making a thorough house cleaning.

Culligan has been a good friend of the Director and the Bureau for

a number of.years. He has demonstrated his support and admiration on numerous

occasions and has been most cooperative with us. It was he who offered to feature

a lead article in a May issue of the "Post" concerning the Director's 40th Anniversary,

with a photograph of Mr. Hoover on the cover. Earlier, through Culligan, we

squelched the unfavorable article against the Bureau being written by free-lance

writer, Dan J. Marlowe, submitted to the "Post" concerning our investigation of

Nussbaum and Wilcoxson. More recently, through Culligan, we postponed publication

in the "Post'' of an article based upon the assault of our Agent Foley in New York by

the Lombardozzi family. Early in 1964,

we received word of an article being

published in the "Post"' by Martin Luther King. Through Culligan,

we forestalled

publication of this article. More recently, with the Director's approval, I

contacted Culligan on September 22, 1964,

concerning another article our sources

"told us that Martin Luther King was preparing for the "Post"

At that time, Culligan,

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who was in the midst of this rebellion, had told us that he would endeavor to assist

us but indicated at the same time that a possible contractual agreement existed with

King. Culligan had been previously discreetly briefed concerning King's domination

by communist influences and of his shameful immoral character. Culligan has

advised that a contract did exist with King for the "Post" article and that the

recalcitrant group within Curtis had insisted that publication of it be carried through

because of King's recent Nobel Peace Prize. Although he was completely sympathetic

with our aims and regretted his inability to be of service in this specific instance,

he pointed out that we should feel free to call upon him in the future if there is any

way in which he can be of help to the Bureau. Culligan advised that the King article

was scheduled for early publication sometime after election.

In connection with this "Post" article by King, our sources have

indicated that since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize he has attempted through

some of his associates to change the "Post" article in an effort to soften criticism

made by him against other civil rights groups and leaders. King feared that such

criticism would cause difficulties in the civil rights movement.

The "Post" however,

has resisted King's efforts to make these changes.

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OPTIONAL FOXH NO.

MAY 1962 FOITION

10

010-106

CJA GEN. REG. NO. 27-

Tolson -

NITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Belmont -

Memorandum ROUTE IN ENVELOPE

Casper -

Callanan

Conrad

DeLoacht

Evans -

TO

We. I. Co Sullivanual

DATE: July 17, 1964

Gale —

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FROM : Mr. I. J. Baumgardier

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Holmes -

SUBJECT:

gill

Gandy -

COMMUNIST. PARTY ,.USA

NEGRO. QUESTION

CONHUNIST INFLUENCE IN RACIAL MATTERS

INTERNAL SECURITY - COMMUNIST

Pursuant to your instructions, there is attached

a letter to the Honorable Walter W. Jenkins, Special

Assistant to the President, under cover of which he is

being furnished an OBSCING '"'Ap Secret" memorandum.

detailing the latest evidence of Martin Luther King's

moral degeneracy.

RECOMMENDATION:

Hordead,

Attached letter to Mr. Jenkins and enclosure

thereto go forward.

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Honorablo Walter I. Jenkins

Speciul Assistant to the Presidont

The Whito House

Washington, D. C.

Dear Hir. Jonkins:

Enclosed is a memorandum dated July 17,

1961, which 1s marked phscene and contains infor

nation concerning MarcIs Luthor ling, Jr. the

menorandun is classifled inop Secret" becauso oi

the extremely sensitivo nature of the source fron

which the information was obtained. The source

was in a position to furnish rellablo information.

Upon renoval of the classified enclosure.

this communication bacones unclassifiod.

NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION Staceroly yours,

Unauthorized Disclosure

Subject to Criminal Sanctions

EnClOSUrO

100-3-116

1 - 100-106670 (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

HOTE:

See memo Baumgardner. to;W. C.

Sullivan 7/17/64

captionedhil Communist.Party, USA,

Negro: Question,

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FBI WASH DC

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

MAR 2 91968 4/

TELETYPE

FBI MEMPHIS

559 PM URGENT 3/29/68 CAF

TO DIRECTOR

FROM MEMPHIS (157-1092)

2 P

sir.

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Mr. Del ach

Mr. Bishy.

Mr. Ciropot

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Miss Good i

RACIAL MATTER

ESANITATION WORKERS STRIKE,

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TENNe, RM.

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RET: RENCE

TELETYPES

RE MEMPHIS TELS

MARCH TWENTY NINE, INSTANI.

EASTERN AIRLINES, MEMPHIS

• ADVISED IHIS DATE REVE

MARTIN

LUTHER KING, JR., REV. RALPH ABERNATHY, AND BERNARD LEE, ALL

SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE, DEPARTED MEMPHIS, TENN.,

EASTERN AIRLINES FLIGHI, THREE NINE EIGHI, AT THREE IWENTY P. Mo,

CSI, MARCH IWENTY NINE, EN ROUTE ATLANIA, GÃO, DUE IO ARRIVE

ATLANTA FIVE TWENTY ONE PM, ESI. LT. GEORGE FEATHERS,

INSPECTIONAL BUREAU, MEMPHIS PD, ADVISED THAT AT PRESS

CONFERENCE AT RIVERMONI HOTEL, MARCH IWENTY NINE, KING BLAMED

MEMPHIS PD FOR MARCH TWENTY EIGHT DISTURBANCE IN EMMPHIS.

157-

41446-43

FEATHERS ADDED A RELIABLE SOURCE ADVISED THAT SANITATION

WORKERS STRIKE SUPPORTERS HEADED BELS

REC-71

COUMUNIT

THE MOVE FOR

EQUALITY ANNOUNCED DAILY SIDEWALK MARCHES IN

MEMPHIS,

INCLUDING

MARCH TWENTY NINE, WOULD CONTINUE AND A MASSIVE MARCH BEING

PLANNED FOR MEMPHIS AS EARLY AS APRIL THREE, NEXT AND NOT LATER

END PAGE ONE

Me four citress

Titi.

Ithis document is prepared in response

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THAN APRIL FIVE, NEXT, AND WILL INCLUDE REV. MARTIN LUTHER

KING, JRO, ROY WILKINS, NATIONAL EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, NAACP,

AND OTHER UNIDENTIFIED NATIONALLY KNOWN CIVIL RIGHIS LEADERS.

FEATHERS ADDED A SMALL DOWNIOWN MARCH, CONFINED IO SIDEWALKS,

TOOK PLACE AFTERNOON MARCH IWENTY NINE, INSTANI. ABOUT

TWO HUNDRED MARCHERS PARTICIPATED.

"FEATHERS SAID THE SEVEN P.M. CURFEW WILL CONTINUE NIGHT

OF

MARCH; TWENTY NINE, INSTANI, AND NATIONAL GUARD TACTICAL

UNITS ARE PROTECTING LOOTED PROPERTY AND PATROLLING POTENTIAL

TROUBLE AREAS ACCOMPANIED BY OFFICERS OF MEMPHIS PD.

NO MAJOR INCIDENTS ANON TO HAVE OCCURRED IODAY, ACCORDING

TO FEATHERS, WHO SAID MEMPHIS PD REQUESTED TO BREAK UP

NUMEROUS SMALL GROUPS OF NEGRO MALES CONGREGATED ON SIR EET

CORNERS IN NEGRO NEIGHBORHOODS. HE SAID NO REPORTED ARRESTS

OR VIOLENCE.

• ATLANTA ADVISED AM. P.

END

BAP

FBI WASH DC

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VIA THEY

MARia: 1933

ENGIPHERSO

11: X7PM URGENT. 3-28-68 ARK

JO DIRECIOR (100-106678) AND MEMPHIS

FROM ATLANIA (100-5586)

MT. Folson

Mr. Debrach

Har. linhr.

Mr. Bishop

Mr. Casper.

Mi. Callahan

MIr. Conrad

Mr. Felt.

Mr. Gale

Mr. Rosen.

Ili. saiiran.

Mr. Tavel

Mr. Trotter.

Tele. Room

M.ss Hoimes.

Miss Gandy

MARIIN LUTHER KING, JR., SM-C.

Rishing

SANITATION WORKERS STRIKE, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE •

RV

INFORMANT

D.Mk

AI ONE THREE EIGHI SEVEN-R. FURNISHED THE FOLLOWING INFORMAIION

AI FOUR THIRTY PM MARCH TWENTYEIGHT, SIXTYEIGHT.

INFORMANT'S

INFORMATION WAS OBTAINED FROM DISCUSSION SHORTLY

WV

BEFORE WITH HOSEA WILLIAMS, DIRECIOR OF VOTER REGISTRATION AND

POLITICAL EDUCALION. SCLE, CURRENTLY IN ATLANIA, WHO DURING LAJE

AFTERNOON MARCH IWENTYEIGHT, SIXIYEIGHT, CONFERRED TELEPHONICALLY

WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., PRESIDENT, SCHE: RALPH D. ABERNATHY,

VICE PRESIDENT AND TEASURER s SCLC; AND

BERNARD'

LEE,

SPECIAL AIDE

TO THE PRESIDENI, SCLC •

• KING, ABERNATHY, AND LEE ARE CURRENTLY IN ROOM EIGHT ZERO

ONE,

HOLIDAY INN, MEMPHIS •

WITH REFERENCE TO RACIAL DISTURBANCE IN MEMPHIS MARCH

IWENTYEIGHT, SIXTYEIGHT, KING IS EXTREMELY DEJECTED. HE AND

ABERNATHY SIRONGLY FEEL DISTURBANCE ON THIS DATE DELIBERATELY PLANNED

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BY NEGROES WHO ARE NEITHER SYMPATHETIC TO KING OR SCLC. IDENTITY

OF SUCH INDIVIDUALS NOT KNOWN.

ABERNATHY, LEE AND WILLIAMS ARE GREATLY CONCERNED FOR

WELFARE OF KING, PARTICULARLY ON NIGHI OF MARCH IWENTYEIGHT,

SIXTYEIGHT, WHEN HE EXPECIS TO PARIICIPATE IN MARCH OR DEMONSIRATION

WITH SANITATION WORKERS• AT PRESENT TIME KING DOES NOT FEEL HE SHOULD

LEAVE MEMPHIS. DURATION OF SIAY AND FURTHER DETAILS IN THIS

CONNECTION NOT KNOWN•

ACCORDING TO WILLIAMS, HE, ABERNATHY, AND LEE STRONGLY FEEL

SAME ELEMENTS WHICH CAUSED DISTURBANCE IN MEMPHIS EARLIER MARCH

TWENTYEIGHT MAY CAUSE PERSONAL HARM TO KING EVENING OF MARCH

TWENTYEIGHT, SIXTYEIGHT •

INFORMATION FROM AT

LEORMANT

JFK Act 6 (4)

MUSI BE CLASSIFIED

CONFIDENTIAL. MEMPHIS, HOWEVER, SHOULD ADVISE LOCAL AUTHORITIES IF

NOT ALREADY KNOWN THAT KING CONTEMPLATES PARTICIPATING IN MARCH OR •

DEMONSTRATION EVENING OF MARCH TWENTYEIGHT AND THAT IN VIEW OF EARLIER

DISTURBANCES IN MEMPHIS ON THIS DATE, SEVERAL RANKING SOLO OFFICIALS

APPREKENSIVE FOR PERSONAL WELFARE OF KING.

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• FOREGOING INFORMATION TELEPHONICALLY FURNISHED MEMPHIS MARCH

TWENTYEIGHT, SIXTYEIGHT.

RECEIVED: 11:39PM RM

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ZU DIRECTOR iLOG-185579) AND KEYPHIS

FROM ATLANTA 6100-55363

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MARTIN LUISER KING, JRO, SM-CA.

ntinic,

NIZATION WORKERS STRIKE, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE

AT

JEK Act 6 (4)

ZEURNISHED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION

AT FOUR THIRTY PM MARCH TWENTYEIGHT, SIXTYEIGHT.

INFORMANT'S INFORMATION WAS OBTAINED FROM DISCUSSION SHORTLY

...V

SEFORE WITH MOSEA WILLIAMS, DIRECIOR OF VOTER REGISTRATION AND

POLITICAL EDUCATION, SCLE, CURRENTLY IN ATLANIA, WHO DURING LATE

AFTERNOC: MARCH TWENTYEIGHT, SIXTYEIGHI, CONFERRED TELEPHONICALLY

WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING, UR., PRESIDENI, SCLC; RALPH D. ADERNATHY,

VICE PAZE-DENT AND BASGRERS SOLO; AND BERNARD LEE, SPECIAL AIDE

IO THE PRISIDENT, SOLC.

KIT, APERATHY, AND LES ARE CURRENELY IN ROOM EIGHE ZERO ONE,.

HOLIDAY IN, MEMPHIS.

WITH PEPERENCE TO RACIAL DISTURGANCE IN MEMPHIS MARCH

TUENCYELCHT, SIXTYEIGHT, KING IS EXCREMELY DEJECTED• ME AND

THIS DATE CELIDERATELY PLADE23

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BY NEGROES WHO ARE NEITHER SYMPATHEII

TO KING

OR SCLE.

IDENTITY

OF SUCH INDIVIDUALS NOT KNOWN.

ABERNATHY, LEE AND WILLIAMS ARE GREATLY CONCERNED. FOR

WELFARE OF KING, PARTICULARLY ON NIGHT OF MARCH TWENTYEIGHT,

SIXTVERONT, UNDU HE EXPOORS TO PARZICIPATE IN MARCH OR DEMONSIRATION

WITH SARITATION WORKERS. AT PRESENT TIME KING DOES NOT FEEL HE SHOULD

LEAVE HEMPHIS. DURATION OF STAY AND FURTHER DETAILS IN THIS

CONNORIOR NOT ANORMO

ACCORDING TO WILLIANS, ME, ABERNATHY, AND LEE STRONGLY TEEL

SAME ELEMENTS WHICH CAUSED DISTURBANCE IN MEMPHIS EARLIER MARCH

TWENTYZIGHT MAY CAUSE PERSONAL HARM TO KING EVENING OF MARCH

TWENTYEIGHT, SIXTYEIGHT •

INFORMANG

FORMATION FROM AE ERE TURES EIGNE SEVEN-A MUST BE CLASSIFILO

CONFIDENCEAL, MEMPHIS, FOLEVER, SHOULD ADVISE LOCAL AUTHORITIES IF

NOT ALREADY KNOUN THAI KING CONTENPLATES PARTICIPATING IN MARCY 03

DEMONSZRATION EVENING

MARO TWENTYEIGHT AND THAT IN VIEW OF EARLIER

DISTIREANCES IN PERPHIS ON AHIS PETE, SEVERAL RANKING SOLE OFFICIALS

APPREKENSEVE FOR PERSCARL

WELFARE OF KING.

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FOREGOING INFORMATION TELEPHONICALLY FURNISHED MEMPHIS MARCH

TWENTYEISHE, SIXTYEIGHT •

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FBI WASH DC*

FRI MEMPHIS

•FEDERAL P°

OF INVESTIGATION

U.S. r

WENT OF JUSTICE

COMMU: SATIONS SECTION

MAR 2 3 1968

TELETYPE

722PM URGENT 3128/68 CAF

TO DIRECIOR AND WO

FRO: MEMPHIS (157-1092)

3P

Mr. Tulson.

sir. Del. ach

Mr. Moht -

Mr. R .10p.

Mr. (aper..

Mr. (iliahan

Mr. C'onrad.

Mr. Felt...

Mr. Grle....

Mr. Rosen.

Mr. Sullivan

Mr. Tavel.

Mr. Trotter.

Tele. Room

Miss Holmes.

Mias Gandy

SANITATION WORKERS STRIKE,

MEMPHIS,

TENN.; RM.

RE MEMPHIS TELS MARCH IWENTY EIGHT..

ON EARLY EVENING MARCH TWENTY EIGHT, NINETEEN SIXTY

EIGHT, LT. E. Ho ARKIN, INSPECTIONAL BUREAU, MEMPHIS POLICE DEPT..

ADVISED THAT THIRTY FIVE HUNDRED TENNESSEE NATIONAL GUARDSMEN MATIeN

CUPRENTLY IN MEMPHIS AND ON: DUTY AND ON PATROL, MEMPHIS, IN

TACTICAL UNITS, EACH UNIT ACCOMPANIED BY ONE OR MORE REPRESENTATIVES

OF MEMPHIS PD. HE AdDEd THAT THe MASS RALLy SCHedUled FOR

Lots

NIGHT OF MARCH TWENTY EICHT, ORIGINALLY TO FEATURE MARTIN LUTHER

KING, JR. AS SPEAKER, HAS BEEN CANCELLED; THAT CITY OF MEMPHIS HAS

INSTITUTED A CURFEW TO BEGIN SEVEN PM, TO KEEP ALL PEOPLE OFF

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STREETS EXCEPT THOSE WHO CAN GIVE LOGICAL EXPLANATION AS

NOVEMENTS.

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•HE STATE, THAI THERE HAD BEEN A TOTAL OF TÄRIE SHOOTINGS

22 APR

1968

DURING THE DAY, ONE BEING THAT OF SIXTEEN YEAR OLD MALE NEGRO,

•2: LARRY PAYNE, WITHCELL ROAD KIGH SCHOOL STUDENT, WHO WAS SHOT DEAD

WHILE LOOTING AT NINE HUNDRED SOUTH FOURTH, AND PD SIILL INVESTIGATING

TO DETER DID WETHER POLICE OFFICER-OR SIOREREEPER FIRED

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FATAL SHOT. A SECOND SHOOTING AS THAT OF A NEGRO FIOTER WHO WAS

SHOT IN NECK SY A POLICE OFFICER. HIS WAS MERELY A FLESH WOUND.

A THIRD LOOTER WAS SHOI ON LATE AFTERNOON MARCH IWENTY EIGHT ON

NORTH THOMAS ST. WHILE IN ACT OF LOOTING AND HE WAS SHOI BY A STORE

OWNER.. ARKIN UNABLE TO ASCERTAIN DETAILS, NAMES, AND PERTINENT

DATA RELATIVE TO LATTER TWO SHOOTINGS.

ARKIN STATED IT HAS BEEN ASCERTAINED THAT REV. MARTIN

• LUTHER KING, JR., JOINED THE WARCH AT LINDEN AND HERNANDO SIS. AFTER

IT HAD PFOGRESSED ABOUT ONE BLOCK. HE MARCHED TO VICINITY OF MAIN

AND BEALE AND AFTER OSSERVING THAT RAMPANT WINDOW BREAKING AND

LOOTING WAS TAKING PLACE

IN THAI PORTION OF WARCH BEHIND HIM,

KING AND SEVERAL COMPANIONS RAN AHEAD TO INTERSECTION OF MC CALL

AND MAIN STRESTS, AUD WERE PICKED UP IN AN AUTOMOBILE DRIVEN BY

UNKNOWN DRIVER. ONE BLOCK WEST AT LiC CALL AND FRONT STREETS, THEY

ASKED A MEMPHIS POLICE LIEUTENANT, Mi. I. NICHOLS, TO ESCORT THEM

TO HOTEL PEABODY. NICHOLS TOLD THEM THAI DUE TO HEAVY CONGESTION

HE COULD NÓT FCLLOW THIS POUTE AND THEY THEN CHOSE TO GO TO .

HOLIDAY INN-RIVERMONI•

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ARKIN STATED KING WAS OSVIOUSLY SCARED AND STATED,

I'VE GOT

-

TO GET CUI CE HERE, .

WHEN THE IRCUSLE STARTED.

• KING HAS NOT LEFT HIS FOON DURING AFTERNOON OF MARCH IWENTY

EIGHT AND IS UNDECIDED AS TO WHETHER OR NOT TO LEAVE MEMPHIS

TONISHT. OFFICER NICHOLS TOLD ARKIN THAT NEITHER KING NOR ANY

MEMBER OF HIS IMMEDIATE PARTY WAS INJURED. KING MADE NO EFFORT

TO QUIET THE MOB, AND ACCORDING TO OFFICER NICHOLS, HIS ONLY CONCERN

WAS IO RUN AND TO PROTECT HIMSELF•

ARKIN STATED THAT MEMPHIS POLICE HAVE RECEIVED NO INFORMATION

KING MADE ANY PUBLIC UTTERANCES DURING MARCH OR IMMEDIATELY PRIOR

TO JOINING MARCH. ARXIN STATED THAT NATIONAL GUARD UNITS WILL

PATPOL MEMPHIS ALL NIGHT AND THE LENGTH OF THEIR REMAINING ON

DUTY IN MEMPHIS IS INDETERMINABLE AT THIS POINT. HE ASSUMES THAT

OTHER SCHEDULED EVENTS, NAMELY, THE MASS RALLY MARCH IWENTY NINE

TO FEATURE DRO C. L. FRANKLIN, AND THE MASS MARCH SCHEDULED FOR

MARCH THIRTY WILL BE CANCELLED.

Inoluded In letter to White House

END

and Attorney General, Date 3-2248

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Domestic Intelligence Division

INFORMATIVE NOTE

Date

3/28/68

The attached specifically relates

to Marti:. Luther King's involvement

in the sanitation workers' strike in

Memphis, Tennessee, the mass march which

occurred 3/28/68, and resulting violence.

When violence began

King said "I've got

to get out of here," and departed scene.

A separate summary

teletype has been

sent to you relating to the violence

which occurred today, 3/28/68, in Memphis,

Tennessee•

A copy of attached has been sent

Inter-Division Information Unit of

Department, and Attorney General. Per-

tinent parts of same to be included in

racial summary teletype to White House,

military, and other appropriate agencies.

UFM: Chs

This document is, prepared in response to sour request and is not for

ration oritsile hair Committee.

• your Commire.

ảnd the content may

Its use is limited to officiacproceedigs by

• dissemi-

nel without the'express approval

not. be disclosed to unauthorized verson-

the fBI

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FBI WASH DO

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

COMMUNICATIONS SECTIONA

MAR 2 & 1968

Mr. Callahan.

Mr. Conrad

Mr. Felt.

FBI MEMPHIS

Mr. Gate

Mr. Hosch

813PM URGENT 3/28/68 CAF

TO DIRECTOR

Vi FROM MEMPHIS (157-1092)

4P

we a Tavel

Mr. Sullivan

Mr. Trotter

Tisit...

Tele. Room.

Mias Molnes

Miss Gandy..

@SANITATION WORKERS STRIKE, MEMPHIS, TENN., PA

Isaial

Matter

RE MEMPHIS TELS MARCH IWENTY EIGHT.

FOLLOWING IS SUMMARY OF MASS ACTION IN CUNNECTION WITH

CAPTIONED STRIKE WHICH BEGAN THE. TUELVE, NINETEEN SIXTY EIGHT, TREAS

ON MARCH IWENTY EIGHT, NINETEEN SIXTY EIGHT, LT. E. Ha

ARKIN ADVISED THAI SOON AFTER STRIKE STARTED, A GROUP OF ABOUT DO EVE

ONE HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE NEGRO MINISTERS CONNECTED WITH MEMPHIS

INTERDENOMINATIONAL MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE FORMED A STRIKE SUPPORT.

GROUP KNOWN AS "COMMUNITY ON THE MOVE FOR EQUALITY" (COME).

THIS GROUP SPONSORED DAILY MARCHES IN DOWNTOWN MEMPHIS AND

BOYCOTTING OF DOWNTOWN MERCHANTS IN EFFORI TO FORCE CITY TO GIVE

CONCESSIONS TO STRIKERS• THE COME

GROUP INVITED MARTIN LUTHER

00 9:210

KING, JR. AND SOME OF HIS SOUTHERN CHR PUZAN LEADERSHT-

CONFERENG

9146-34

(SCLO) TO COME TO MEMPHIS TO SUPPORI SARGE

KING SPOKE BEFORE

PD-ESTIMATED TWELVE THOUSAND PEOPLE AT MARCH EIGHTEEN RALL

MASON TEMPLE. MARCH TWENTY-FIVE, NINETEEN SIXTY EIGHI ISSE fOR

1968

TRI-STATE DEFENDER REPORTED PORTIONS OF KING'S SPEECH.

HE SAT

_=

TIME HAD COME TO ESCALATE PRESSURE IN SUPPORI OF STRIKERS AND

THAT

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TIME HAD COME TO SET ASIDE A DAY FOR A GENERAL WORK STOPPAGE AND

BOYCOTT OF SCHOOLS SO MOST STUDENTS AND WORKERS ALIKE COULD PREVENT

MEMPHIS FROM FUNCTIONING. HE SAID THAT NOTHING IS EVER DONE WITHOUT

THE APPLICATION OF PRESSURE. HE SAID, "AMERICA MAS GIVEN THE

BLACK MAN A CHECK THAT HAS BEEN BOUNCING ALL AROUND AND I WANT IT

BACKED UP WITH MONEY FROM THE FEDERAL RESERVE. ANYBODY WITH EYES

CAN TELL THAT THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THIS NATION. WE ARE

SPENDING FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS TO KILL ONE VIET CONG AND ONLY

FIFTY THREE DOLLARS A PERSON IO FIGHT POVERTY.* HE TOLD THE

NEGROES. THEY WOULD HAVE POWER WHEN THEY COULD MAKE MEMPHIS MAYOR

HENRY LOEB SAY, "YES" WHEN HE WOULD RATHER SAY "NO." HE ASKED THE

CROWD, "WHAT PROFIT WAS II FOR A MAN TO GET THE RIGHI TO EAT AI AN

INTEGRATED LUNCH COUNTER WHEN HE DID NOT HAVE MONEY FOR A HAMBURGER

AND CUP OF COFFEE OR TO HAVE THE RIGHT TO STOP AT A MOTEL WKEN ONE

DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO TAKE A VACATION; IT IS NOTHING SHORT

OF CRIMINAL FOR A MAN TO WORK FULL TIME AND RECEIVE A PART TIME

INCOME." HE PREDICIED THAT AMERICA WOULD GO TO HELL IF IT DID

NOT USE ITS VAST WEALTH TO END POVERTY. THEREAFTER, KING AND

THE COME GROUP CALLED FOR A MASS MARCH IN DOWNTOWN MEMPHIS MARCH

TWENTY TWO. ARKIN ADDED THAT THIS MARCH CANCELLED DUE TO SIXTEEN

END PAGE TWO

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INCH SNOW STORM RESCHEDULED FOR MARCH IWENTY EIGHT. HE SAID

THE MARCH STARTED ABOUT ELEVEN AM, MARCH IWENTY EIGHT. KING MADE

NO SPEECHES PRIOR TO MARCH AND IN FACT DID NOT JOIN IT UNITL IT

HAD PROGRESSED ABOUT ONE BLOCK. HE WALKED WITH NEWSMEN AND OTHER

MINISTERS TO INTERSECTION OF MAIN AND BEALE STREETS. THERE HE

BECAME AWARE THAT RAMPANT BREAKING OF STORE FRONT WINDOWS AND

LOOTING WAS BEING PERPETRATED BY MARCHERS BEHING HIM. HE TOLD

¡ONE MINISTER, "I'VE GOI IO GET OUI OF HERE." KING, ACCOMPANIED

BY SEVERAL ASSOCIATES, RAN AHEAD TO MC CALL AND MAIN STREET,

JUMPED INTO A CAR AND DROVE ONE BLOCK WEST TO FRONT AND MC CALL

WHERE THEY INDUCED MEMPHIS PD LT. M. E. NICHOLS TO ESCORT THEM TO

RIVERMONT MOTEL SEVERAL MILES SOUTHWEST OF TROUBLE AREA, WHERE HE

REGISTERED IN AT ELEVEN TWENTY FOUR AM. ARKIN SAID KING AND

¡ASSOCIATES REMAINED IN ROOM ALL AFTERNOON.

AFTER SPORADIC LOOTING CONTINUED ALL AFTERNOON, AND THIRTY

FIVE HUNDRED NATIONAL GUARDSMEN PLACED ON DUTY IN MEMPHIS AND THE

PLACING OF A SEVEN PM CURFEW, ARKIN SAID KING IN A TAPED I.V.

INTERVIEW SAID HE DID NOT FINISH WHAT HE STARTED TO DO. HE DIDN'T

ELABORATE. KING'S ASSOCIATE, REV. RALPH D. ABERNATHY, APPEALED

TO STRIKERS AND STRIKE SYMPATHIZERS TO STAY OFF STREET BUT DID NOT

END PAGE THREE

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TELL YOUTH IO STAY OFF SIREET. REV. JAMES M. LAWSON, JR.,

LEADER, CALLED FOR ADDITIONAL MARCHES MARCH TWENTY NINE AND

MARCH THIRTY®

END

: BAP.

FBI WASH DC

COME"

Included in letter to Wnite House

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REG-15)

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1 - Mr.

DeLoach

1

- Mr.

W. C. Sullivan

- Mr.

- Mr.

Bi sho Moore

1

- Mr.

D. M. Wells

Larch 1, 1968

155

R NOTATION

Jolson

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jule

LIRTIN LUTHER NING, JR.

The following information has been supplied by

confidential sources of this Bureau who have furnished

reliable information in the past.

Recently, Stanley Levison and Clarence Jones

were in conference. Both men are advisors to hartin luther

King, Ji., President of the Southern Christian Leacership

Conference.

At this meeting, they discussed King's massive "

civil disobedience campaign called the "Washington Spring

Project" and the issues King should raise curing the

denonstrations.

Jones informed Levison that Harry Wachtel, another

advisor to King, had drafted some material in this regard

which calls for full employment, a guaranteed wage, ano a

guaranteeá annual incone. Also, the Reverend Frederick

Kirkpatrick, a coorainator in the New York area for king's

project, had furnished Jones with a pamphlet entitled

"Declaration of Principle on the March in Auril." Jones

coinented that this iter wes thiee to four pages in length

and was being alstiibuted under the auspices of the

"Committee of National Negro Churchmen."

Levison rentioned to Jones that he had sent

out a mailing to 80,000 individuals, who have contributed

to king's diganization in the past

two years, soliciting

funds.

Levison rerarked that the returns are running ahea

of last year's response with $15,000 being received in one

day. Levison advised this letter soliciting funds was

DMW: Imr

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PARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

carefully written to center on the "Washington Spring Project"

and to explain the rationale for it. Because of the success

of this lettei, Levison aavised he will send it to 250,000

move people in the nicdle-class incore group.

Levison told Jones that things are going well in

the mobilization for the "Washington Spring Froject.". king

informed Levison recently that people fron Alabana end

ülssissippi are "just raring to go."

Another source aävised on February 28; 1963, that

Bernard Lafayette, project Director, Southern Christian

Leadership Conference, had Informed him that King's organi-

zation is experiencing difficulty recruiting demonstrators

for the "Washington Spring Project." Because of this, the

demonstration would not start the first week of April

originally planned.

A third source learned from Anthony Henry, assistant

to Lafayette, that the Southern Christian Leadershi, Conference

had held a secret neeting and tentatively set a date of April 27,

1968, for the start of the "washington Spring Project." Ac-

cording to this source, lenty incicated this cate can be moved

up or back depending on future developments.

FOREIGN

A Evurth source advised in April, 1964, that

Some sary a Can 29 too of an an on Forty,

SENSITIVE

INTELLIGENCE

silticized the Communist. Party for not beins suficiently

mittent in the civil eloats struggle. Levison was ascribed

by certain Communigt. Parly leaders etbeing to the Wefth e

i serenceant the cornist Party

que nerely

tactical, end he continues his ideolog cal naherence

commish. Stanley levison is the owner and operator of

the Park Management Realty Company, 1841 Broadway, lew Yoik,

New York.

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SECRET

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR

A fifth source advised on February 26, 1957, that

he identified a photograph of Clarence Jones as a person

whom he knew during late 1953, or early 1954, to be a member

and in a position of leadership in the Labor Youth League.

The Labor Youth League has been designated pursuant

to Executive Order 10450.

In March, 1944, a sixth source advised the name

Harry Wachtel was on the list of names, significance not

known, which was maintained at the headquarters of Kings

County Communist Party, Brooklyn, New York. The same source

advised at the same time that the name and address of

Leonora

Wachtel, wife of Harry, were on a list of names of

newly elected officers of the Bath Beach Club of the Kings

County Communist Farty.

XEROX COPIES TO MRS. MILDRED STEGALI AT THE WHITE HOUSE;

SECRETARIES OF LABOR, AGRICULTURE, DEFENSE; MR. WILLIAM WELSH;

SECRET SERVICE; AG; DAG; AAGS POLLAK, YEAGLEY AND VINSON;

Classicied "Secret" inasmuch as the concealed sources

for the above information are highly sensitive sources operating

in the racial field whose disclosure would seriously damage our

:intelligence coverage and be injurious to the national defense.

See cover memorandum G. C. Moore to W. C. Sullivan,

• dated 2/29/68, captioned as above, prepared by DMW: 1mr.

SECRET

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TO

FROM

SUBJECT:

OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10

5010-106

MAY 19

OSA t. 1. REG. NE, 27

•UNITED STATES GO.

NMENT

'Memorandum

:

Mx. W. C. SullivanWEeN

G. C. Moore GeND

MARTIN LUTHER

KING, JR.

SECURITY MATTER - COMMUNIST

PURPOSE:

1 - Mr.

DeLoach

1 - Mr. W. C. Sullivan

DATE: 2/29/68

1 - Mr. Bishop

1 - Mr. G. C. Moore

1 - Mr. D. M. Wells

Tolson.

DeLoach

Moha

Cailshan .

Conrad -

Felt.

Gale -

Rosen

Sulliven

Tavel -

Trotter

Tele. Room -

Holmes -

Gandy

6:

Attached for your approval for dissemination are

copies of a communication containing plans of the advisors

to Martin Luther King, Jr., President, Southern Christian

Leadership Conference (SCIC), pertaining to his massive civil

: disobedience campaign to be held in Washington, D.C.,

in

April, 1968.

BACKGROUND:

King in the past has publicly announced he will

conduct a massive civil disobedience campaign he calls the

"Washington Spring Project" in early April, 1968, to pressure

Congress into passing legislation favorable to the Negro.

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS:

ELSUR

NY 3810-S* advised recently that Stanley David

Levison and Clarence Jones, both advisors to King with sub-

versive backgrounds, were in conference concerning King's

project. Jones informed Levison that Harry Wachtel, another

advisor of King's with a subversive background, had drafted

some material that King could use during the campaign calling

for full employment, a guaranteed wage,

and a guaranteed annual

income. Also, the Reverend Frederick Kirkpatrick, a New York

coordinator for the project, had furnished Jones with material

entitled "Declaration of Principle on the March in April."

This pamphlet was being distributed by the "Committee of?

National Negro Churcimen REG 15/40 - 10 to pia d

EnclosureReut 3-1÷68

GEMAR

DMW: 1mr (;

•11.59

1(6)

his document is prepared on response to faNT Aland i YE

Its use is limited to official blastedlings by

nel without the express approval of the FBI .

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Memorandum G. C. Moore to W. C. Sullivan

RE: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Levison told Jones that he had received an excellent

response to a recent mailing. The solicitations were running

ahead of last year with $15,000 being received in one day.

Levison informed that the letter soliciting funds was carefully

written explaining King's project and, because of the success,

he was sending it to 250,000 more people.

Levison also told Jones that things are going well

in the mobilization. for the project and King informed him that

people from Alabama and Mississippi are "just raring to go."

OBSERVATIONS:

On February 28, 1968, a WFO informant informed us

that Bernard Lafayette, project Director for SCLC, had informed

him King's organization is experiencing difficulty with re-

cruiting demonstrators for the "Washington Spring Project."

Because of this, the demonstrations would not start the first

week of April as originally planned.

Another WFO informant learned from Lafayette's

assistant, Anthony Henry, that a secret meeting had been held

by King's group and they had set April 27, 1968, as the date

for the project to start. Henry indicated this date can be

moved up or back depending on future developments.

It is felt that the President would be interested in

receiving information showing the communist help King is re-

ceiving in his proposed "Washington Spring Project."

RECOMMENDATION:

That copies of the enclosures be forwarded to

Mrs. Mildred Stegall at the White House; Mr. William Welsh,

Administrative Assistant to the Vice President; Secretary of

Agriculture Freeman; Secretary of Labor Wirtz; Secretary of

Defense; Secret Service; the Attorney General; the Deputy

Attorney General; Assistant Attorneys General

Pollak, Yeagley,

and Vinson; the Inter-Division Information Unit of the Depart-

Navy, and Air Force.

-ph

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UNT

STATES DEPARTMENT OF JI

ICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

• In Reply, Please Refer to

• File No.

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535

March 1, 1968

MARTIN LUTHER KING,

JR.

The following information has been supplied by

confidential sources of this Bureau who have furnished

reliable information in the past.

Recently, Stanley Levison and Clarence Jonés

were in conference. Both men are advisors to Martin Luther

King, Jr., President of the Southern Christian Leadership

Conference.

At this meeting, they discussed King's massive:

civil disobedience campaign called the "Washington Spring

Project" and the issues King should raise during the

demonstrations.

Jones informed Levison that Harry Wachtel, another

advisor to King, had drafted some material in this regard

which calls for full employment, a guaranteed wage, and a

guaranteed annual income. Also, the Reverend Frederick

Kirkpatrick, a coordinator in the New York area for King's

project, had furnished Jones with a pamphlet entitled

"Declaration of Principle on the March in April." Jones

commented that this item was three to four pages in length

and was being distributed under the auspices of the

"Committee of National Negro Churchmen."

Levison mentioned to Jones that he had sent

out a mailing to 80,000 individuals, who have contributed

to King's organization in the past two years, soliciting

funds.

Levison remarked that the returns are running ahead

of last year's response with $15,000 being received in one

day. Levison advised this letter soliciting funds was

SECRET

Group 1

Excluded from automatic

downgrading and

declassification

NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION

Unauthorized Disclosure

ENCLOSUSA

Subjeet to Criminal Sanctions

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SECRET

MARTIN LUTHER KING,

JR.

carefully written to center on the "Washington Spring Project"

and to explain the rationale for it. Because of the success

of this letter, Levison advised he will send it to 250,000

more people in the middle-class income group.

Levison told Jones that things are going well in

the mobilization for the "Washington Spring Project." King

informed Levison recently that people from Alabama and

Mississippi are "just raring to go."

Another source advised on February 28, 1968, that

Bernard Lafayette, project Director, Southern Christian

Leadership Conference, had informed him that King's organi-

zation is experiencing difficulty recruiting demonstrators

for the "Washington Spring Project." Because of this, the

demonstration would not start the first week of April

originally planned.

A third source learned from Anthony Henry, assistant

to Lafayette, that the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

had held a secret meeting and tentatively set a date of April 27,

1968, for the start of the "Washington Spring Project." Ac-

cording to this source, Henry indicated this date can

be moved

up or back depending on future developments.

A fourth source advised in April, 1964, that

Stanley Levison was a secret member of the Communist Party,

militant in the civil rights struggle..

Levison was described

by certain communist party leaders as being to the "left" of

the Communist Party in his position on civil rights. His

differences with the Communist Party, however, are merely

tactical, and he continues his ideological adherence to

communism.. Stanley Levison is the owner and operator of

локініє

the Park Management Realty Company, 1841 Broadway, New York,

New York.

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SECRET

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

A fifth source advised on February 26, 1957, that

he identified a photograph of Clarence Jones as

a person

whom he knew during late 1953, or early 1954, to be a member

and in a position of leadership in the Labor

Youth League.

The Labor Youth League has been designated pursuant

to Executive Order 10450.

In March, 1944, a siXth source advised the name

marry wachtel was on the list of names, significance not

known, which was maintained at the headquarters of Kings

County Communist Party, Brooklyn, New York. The same source

advised at the same time that the name and address of

Leonora Wachtel, wife of Harsy, were on a list of names of

newly elected officers of the Bath Beach Club of the Kings

County Communist Party.

SECRET

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Domestic Intelligence Division.

INFORMATIVE NOTE

Date

3/25/68

Attached relates to sanitation

workers' strike in progress

Memphis, Tennessee, and claims

have been made Martin Luther King,

Jr. will lead a mass march in

downtown Memphis 3/28/68.

This information has been

furnished Inter-Division Informa-

tion Unit of Department, and copy

sent Attorney General.

JFM: chs

Gimu

T'his document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi-

nour Committee.: Its use is limited to official proceedings by

? and the content may not be disclosed to unauthorized person-

nel without the express approval of the FBI.

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FBI WASH DC

FEDERAL DUREAL OF IEIVESTIGATIONE

U.S. DEPARIMENT OF JUSTICE

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

MAR 2 5 1968

TELETYPE 7

FBI MEMPHIS

518 PM DEFERRED

3-25-68

TO DIRECTOR

FROD MEMPHIS (157-1092)

ĐND

Mr. Inclah

Mr. Pharad

MIr. Feit

Mr.

aLt. Tavel .

AIr. Ir iter.

'Tale. Room.

Miss Eula's

Miss Gandy

--

L'ACiAl MAttER

SANITATION WORKERS STRIKE, MEMPHIS TENNESSEES RI.

AP

RE MEMPHIS TEL MARCH TWENTY THREE LAST.

ON MARCH

IWENTY FIVE INSTANT LI. E. H. ARKIN, INSPECIIONAL

POliCE DEDARtINENZ

BUREAU, MEMPHIS PE, ADVISED MEDIATION OF STRIKE RESUMED AI IWO

P.M. MARCH IVENTYFIVE INSTANT AFTER ROBERT HOFFMANN, CHANCELLOR

SHELBY COUNTY CHANCERY COURT, RULED OFFICIALS OF AMERICAN

FEDERATION OR SIATE, COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES WILL NOT BE •

IN VIOLATION OF HIS ORIGINAL INJUNCTION IF THEY NEGOTIATE WITH CITY

OF MEMPHIS. ARKIN SAID

A RELIABLE SOURCE OF PD ADVISED NEGRO

MiNISTERIAL GROUP SUPPORT STRIKE CLAIMS REV. MARTIN LUTHER

KING DRO WILL COME TO MENALS FIGHT

MARCH TWENTY EIGHT NEXT FOR

A NASS STRIKE SUPPORT RALLY AND WILL

PERSONALLY LEAD

MASS

MARCH IN DOWNTOWN MEMPHIS- MORNING MARCH IWENTY NINE NEXT I

STRIKE SUPPORIERS WILL URGE ALL NEGRO STUDENTS TO BOYCOTT

SCHOOL AND ALL

/NEGRO WORKERS TO STAY OFF JOBS ON MARNCH IWENTY

END

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XEROX

MAR 1968

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your CURINDELOACH IFORe THEtIRium not be disclosed to unauthorized versor

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NINE NEXT AND PARTICIPATE IN MARCH. ARKIN ADVISED A SMALL MARCH

CONSISTING OF TWO HUNDRED STRIKE SYMPATHIZERS TOOK PLACE IN

DOWNTOWN MEMPHIS AFTERNOON OF MARCH TWENTY FIVE INSTANT.

=.

NO ARRESTS. NO INCIDENTS. P.

CORR PG ONE LINE 9

SHLD BE MINISTERIAL GROUP SUPPORTIMG.•.

END

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5-113 (1-10-61)

Domestic Intelligence Division

INFORMATIVE NOTE

Date

3/26/68

Attached relates to sanita-

tion workers' strike in progress

at Memphis, Tennessee.

Martin Luther King scheduled

to lead mass march in downtown

Memphis 3/28/68.

The attached information

has been furnished Inter-Division

Information Unit of Department,

and copy sent Attorney General.

JFM:chs

1,Cr

wes/m

T'his document is prepared in resporise to your request and is not for dissemi-

vour Committee.

Its use is limited to officia proceedings by

your cimmi" e and the content may not be disclosed to unauthorned person.

nel without the express approval, of the FBl.

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FBI

WASH DO

FEDERAL BUREAU OF IN:ESTIGATION

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

COMMUNICATION SECTION

MAR2 § 1868

TELÉTYPE

Mr. 'Tulson..

Mr. Deluach y

FBI MEMPHIS

505

PM URGETN 3-26 - 68 DND

DIRECTOR

FROM MEMPHIS (157-1092)

Mr. Callelan

Mr. Conrad

Mr. Fxlt.

MIr

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SANITATION WORKERS STRIKE, MEMPHIS, TENN.;

RIT.

MallowAN

RE MEMPHIS TEL TO BUREAU, MARCH IWENTYFIVE LAST.

TRAINS.

ON MARCH IWENTYSIX A FIRSI SOURCE ADVISED THAT COMMUNITY

ON THE MÓVE FOR EQUALITY (COME), THE MEMPHIS MINISTERIAL GROUP

LEADING SANITATION WORKERS STRIKE SUPPORI, HAVE CANCELLED PLANS

FOR MASS DOWNTOWN MARCH ON MARCH TWENTYNINE. INSTEAD FOLLOWIN

EVENTS PLANNED: ON NIGHT OF MARCH TWENTYSEVEN REV. RALPH D

ABERNATHY, VICE PRESIDENT AI LARGE, SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP

CONFERENCE (SCLC) WILL ADDRESS MASS RALLY AT MASON TEMPLE. WILL

• CALL FOR MASS NEGRO WORK STOPPAGE AND SCHOOL BOYCOTT FOR MARCH

TWENTYEIGHI DURING WHICH MASS DOWNTOWN MARCH WILL BE HELD, LED BY

• REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., BEGINNING AT TEN A.M. KING DUE IO

MARCH TWENTY-

ARRIVE IN MEMPHIS EARLIER ON THAT DATE. ON NIGHTUQTADE 157-9146

EIGHT KING WILL ADDRESS MASS RALLY AT

FREY EPLE,

Ton FRIDaY

1575-30

12

NIGHT, MARCH IWENTYNINE,

DR. C.L.)

FRANKLIN, MALE NEGRET WELL KNOWN

BAPTIST EVANGELISI FROM DETROIT,

WILL ADDRESS MASS RALLYWAT

TEMPLE. FRANKLIN IS FATHER OF NATIONALLY KNOWN RHYTHA AND BLUES.,

SINGER ARETHA FRANKLIN. COME LEADERS HOPE TO. INDUCE KING TO REMAIN

END E

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documeit is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi-

AUG 301968 Y174

nation ostside your Committee.

Its use is limited to offreial proceedings ba

gur Committre and the content may not be disclosed to unauthorized person-

vel mithout the eapress appovat of the fBI :

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IN MEMPHIS THROUGH MARCH THIRTY AT WHICH TIME ANOTHER MASS

DOWNTOWN MARCH WILL BEGIN AT TEN A.M. COME HOPES TO HAVE BOTH

KING AND FRANKLIN LEAD THAT MARCH.. MILITARY INTELLIGENCE AND MEMPHIS

PoliCE

DEPAREMENE

PD ADVISED.

AIRMAIL COPY TO ATLANTA AND DETROIT. P.

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• FD-36 (RO1. 12-13-581

Transmit the following in

Via -

• FBI

Date: 3/26/68

(Type in plain text or code).

(Priority or Method of Mailing)

noore

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI

FROM:

SAC, MEMPHIS (157-1092) (P)

D&D

SANITATION WORKERS STRIKI

3,

MEMPHIS

TENNESS

RM

$

ENCL

Re Memphis airtel and LHi, 3/25/68.

Enclosed herewith for the Bureau are ll copies of

It captioned as above and dated 3/26/68.

C.

C.-

"Blshop.

Waitry guilt

(12)

UG 301963.

copies are being funished to Usty memphis,

and U. S.

secret service, memphis, and to Regional Offices

of military intelligence.

two coples of LHM are being furnished to Atlanta

and 1 copy 1s being furnished to Detrolt.

The information set out in the enclosed LHM

was orally furnished on 3/26/68 to WILLIAM BRAY, 111th

Military Intelligence, Memphis, and to It. E. H. ARKIN,

Inspectional Bureau,

Memphis, Police Department.

NFORMANE

Source one

:338-R(Ghetto).

157-9146-1

31

Bureau (Encs. 11)

(RM)

EX-116J/ REC-20

157!

• Atlanta

(1 -

100-SCLC) (Erct( Info) (REGISTERED

MA LL)

- 100-MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.)

• MAR 28 1968

1 • Detroit

(Enc. 1) (Info) (RM)

6 • Hemphis

(1 - 157-1092)

(1

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157-166,

SCLC)

100-4105,

170-70

Sub,

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-66-1687 Sub

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vour Committee. Its use is limited to of ya proceedings by

e and the osestnt may not be dishlosed herinauthorized person

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ME 157-109%

LEADS:

ATLANTA AND DETROIT DIVISIONS (INFORMATION)

Copy Is being furnished detroit as Dr. C. u.

FRANKLIN lives there,

and copIes are being furnished to

Atlanta since MARTIN

LUTHER KING,

sik., and

SCLC are

headquartered there.

MEMPHIS DIVISION

AT MEMPHIS, TEN.

Will continue to follow and report pertinent

activities.

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In Reply, Please Refer 20

File No.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Memphis, Tennessee

March 26, 1960

Re :

SANITATION WORKERS STRIKE,

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE

RACIAL MATTERS

The "Commercial Appeal" newspaper, Memphis,

Tennessee, reported in its issue of March

26, 1968,

that mediation talkson the issues of the 7-week-old

sanitation strike in Memphis, Tennessee, ran for more

than four hours on the afternoon of March 25, 1968, after

a brief interlude during which Chancellor Robert Hoffman,

Shelby County Chancery Court, ruled that members of the

American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees

who were under injunction in

his court could represent the

workers in their negotiations with the City.

It will be recalled that it was originally reported

on March 25, 1968, that Reverend Martin Luther king, Jr.,

Te NiN

President of the Southern Christian Leadership. Conference (SCiC),

would lead a massive march in

Support of the strike in downtown

Memphis on Friday, March 29, 1968. •

On the late night of March 25, and the morning of

March 26, 1968, a first source advised

that this was

erroneous information and that a meeting had been held on

the evening of March 25, 1968, by the Community on the

Move for Equality (COME) , the

name adopted by the Memphis

Interdenominational

Ministerial Alliance, a group of some

125 Negro ministers

in Memphis, who are leading the strike

support, during which time plans for the remainder of the

week beginning

March 25, 1968, were formulated.. These

On Wednesday night, March 27, 1958, Dr. Ralph

Abernathy, Vice President-ateLarge,

scue, will speak

Mason Temple,

Memphis, at which time he will urge a

massive work stoppage on the part of Memphis Negroes and

a boycott of the city schools by Negro students in order

that thousands of Negroes can participate in a mass march

TENN

This document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi-

ration ptain, vour

Committee.

Its use is limited to official proceedings by

not that e are the genot a pot is polosed to unanthorized person.

ENCLOSURE

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SANITATION WORKERS STRIKE,

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE

to commence at 10 a.m., Thursday, March 28, 1968, to

leave from Clayborn Temple, Hernando and Pontotoc

Street, Memphis.

This march will be led by Reverend

Martin Luther King, Ji., who is expected to arrive in

Memphis early on the morning of March 28, 1968.

On the night of March 28, 1968, Reverend Martin

Luther king, Jr., will address a

mass strike support rally

also to be

held

in Mason Temple; and on Friday night,

March 29,

1968, also in Mason Temple, a mass strike

support

rally will be addressed by be. C. L franklin, also known 85 ci

Reverend.C. L. Franklin, Negro minister of Detroit, Michigan.

Source one stated Franklin is a former Mempheaded

is a leader in the National Baptist Conyentand is a renowned

by Dr. J. H. Jackson of Chicago,, Miinois, and

Negro evangelist who formerly lived in Memphis and whose

daughter, Aretha Fran the, is a nationally known clythm

7279

and blues singer.

source's opinion, Franklin will

draw a tremendous crowd due to not only his personal popularity

in the Negro religious community, but by virtue of the

popularity of his daughter.

It is planned by the COME leaders that both

Di. Franklin and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., will

remain in Memphis until Saturday, March 30, 1968, at which

time another mamnoth

march is scheduled in

downtown Memphis,

this again to commence at Clayborn Temple at 10 a.u.,

March 30, 1968.

Source one

stated that in all probability when

the marchers come up Main Street in front of the Memphis

City Hall that King and others will probably stop and

address the marchers from the plaza area in front of the

Memphis City Hall, The government plaza consists of

¡our major buildings, ald facing Main Street between Adams

and Poplar, these being the City hall, the federal Bullding,

the Tennessee State Office Building, and the Memphis Police

Department; and several thousand people could easily congregate

on the plaza.

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SANITATION WORKERS STRIKE,

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE

The above information furnished by source one

was orally furnished on March 26, 1968, to Lieutenant E. H.

Arkin, Inspectional Bureau, Memphis, Tennessee, Police

Department, and to Willsam Bray, lllth Military Intelligence

Corps, Third Army, Memphis, Tennessee.

Lieutenant Arkin advised on March 26, 1968, that

on the late afternoon of March 25, 1968, a small march

of strike sympathizers again was conducted in downtown

Memphis, consisting of approximately 200, mostly adults,

who marched from Clayborn Temple into the downtown Memphis

area on Main Street. There were no incidents and no

arrests.

This document contains neither recommendations nor

conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and •

is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be

distributed outside your agency.

•3₴∞

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FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)

Transmit the following in

Via

AIRTEL

FiB

Date:

3/27/68

(Type in plaintext or code)

(Priorizy)

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI

• FROM:

SAC, MEMPHIS (157-1092) (P)

SUBJECT: °

SANITATION WORKERS. STRIKE

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE

RACIAL MATTERS

D. rabies

ReVEairtel and LHM dated 3/26/68.

Enclosed herewith for the Bureau are ll copies of

letterhead memorandum dated and captioned as above.

Copies are being furnished to USA and U.S. Secret

Service, both Memphis, and to regional offices of

Military

Intelligence.

Information in enclosed LHM was furnished to Mr.

• WILLIAM BRAY, 111th MI Group, Memphis, on 3/27/68.

EX•115

AGENCY: CRD, ESD,

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HOW FORW:_

DATE FORW:

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BY :

Trust

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REC-21

157-91465

133,

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Bureau (Encs. 22) ENSLOSE

Memphis

(1 - 157-1092)

(1

-

157-556)

(1

66-1687-Sub, Dissemination)

WHL: LF

(6)

10 MAR 29

1988

nonet the corte n

Biche

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IN AUGY3619682989561

Special Agent

Page

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In Reply, Please Refer 20

File No.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Memphis, Tennessee

March 27, 1968

RE :

SANITATION WORKERS STRIKE

TENNESSEE

RACIAL MATTERS

Jenn

On March 27, 1968, Lt. E. H. Arkin, Inspectional

Bureau, Police Department, Memphis,

Tennessee, advised that

the sanitation strike in Memphis which began February 12

1968, continues unabated and that negotiations between Memphis

city

officials and representatives of the striking workers

continue under the leadership of the appointed mediator,

Frank Miles.

I't. Arkin advised that a reliable source of the

police Department has stated that a mass meeting in support

of the strike was held at the Trinity CME Church, Thomas and

Wells, the night of March 26, 1968, with the guest speaker

being

Fatherx Parker, affiliated with the World Council of

Churches

He spoke, endorsing the sanitation workers, and

called for Negro people to get together and for teachers in

the school system to stop feeling as though they were above

the sanitation workers and for the sanitation workers to stop

feeling they are below everyone else.

It was learned that after this meeting HarolaYuiddle.

of the CME church; Rev. Sam B./Kyles, head of the Metropolitan

Baptist Church; and Jesse Epps, Field Director, American Federa-

tion of state, County and Municipal Employees, and others held

a strategy meeting, at which time Jackson, who is representing

the union in negotiations with the city, was of the opinion

that he should "walk out" on the negotiations as the negotia-

tions were getting nowhere.

This document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi-

ration outside your Committee.

Its use is limited to official proceedings by

vor Cani?' 'e and the content may not be disclosed to unauthonzed person-

nel without the express approval of the FBI.

157-9146-33

ENCLOSURE

HH 55117

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SANITATION WORKERS STRIKE

-MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE

Those present agreed that the strike cannot last

much longer, with EPPS

stating that the union has already

spent over $15,000 and the union has to do something, that

it just cannot

go on day by day marching downtown.

AdaIt was further agreed that the mass meetings,

which have been held on a nightly

basis, should now be held

only three tines a week and efforts should be made to bring

in "big name" people to speak at these meetings.

With regard to future plans, it was still agreed

that Dr. Ralph Difibernathy, Vice-president, Southern Chris-

tian Leadership conference, Atlanta, world speak at a mass

meeting at Mason Temple on

the night of March 27, 1968, and

that the mass march scheduled for Thursday, March 28, 1968,

beginning at 10:00 an. From Clayborn Temple, to be headed by

Rev. Martin Luther/king 3r., president of the Southern Chris-

tian Leadership Conference, would take place. The march route

has still not been resolved, but people were to assemble not

later than 9:00 a.m., and parade marshals are to be there as

early as 7:00 a.m.

Martin Luther King is still scheduled to

speak at a

meeting at Mason Temple beginning at 7:30 p.m.

March 28, 1968.

It was also reported that on Friday night,

March 29, 1968, Rev. C. I. Franklin of Detroit, Michigan, a

Baptist evangelist, would sbeak at a mass meeting at Mason

Temple and then Franklin would lead a march of a massive nature

in downtown Memphis to begin Saturday morning, March 30, 19€8,

at 10:00 a.m.

It. Arkin further advised that he had learned a small •

downtown march took place on the late afternoon of March 26,

1968, in which approximately 150 strike supporters participated.

There

were no arrests and no incidents.

The above information was furnished to a represen

tative of Military Intelligence in Memphis March 27, 1968.

This document contains neither recommendations nor

conclusions. of the FBI.

It is the property of the FBI and is

loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be dis-

tributed outside your agency.

2%.

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In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Memphis, Tennessee

March 26, 1968

Title:

SANITATION WORKERS STRIKE,

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE

Character: RACIAL MATTERS

Reference: Memorandum prepared at Memphis,

Tennessee, dated and captioned as above.

All sources (except any listed below). whose

identities are concealed in referenced communication have

furnished reliable information in the past.

This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions

of the FBI.

It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to

your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed

outside your agency.

NH 55117 DocId: 32989564

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FD-30 (Rov. 12-15-58)

Agency G2, VDI L/OSI,

FBI

CRD, 55,

1/3/tr

Date:

3/28/68

Darie Fors.

How Ic: r.

Transmit the following in

(Type in plain text or code)

Ey

Via

AIRTEL

(Priority or Method of Mailing)

1D:

DIRECTOR, ГВІ

THOM:

SAC, MENPHIS (157-109%) (P)

SANITAT ION VORKERS STRIKE,

KEPHIS, FENNESSE

i-$34D

1 ME

This -

Re

Memphis airtel and lin dated 3/27/68

Enclosed herewith

for Bureau are il copies and

£03 WEO 2 copies and Atlanta

3 copies of lill dated 3/28/68,

captioned as above.

Copies of LIM are being disseninated to US,.

Memphis;

U.S. Secret Service, Memphis; and to Regional Offices of

Military Intelligence.

CONFIDL ATIE

Source one is D, A, MURPhenn.

Section ericaneser

Memphis,

InFormation

in the enclosed LHM was orally

3

- Bureau (Enos 11) (RI)

• Atlanta (Encs 3)

(RM)

•WHO (EnCS. 2) (RM)

V

FX-115

2721994

1577=

9146÷31

F2O MAR BO 1Y68

6

- Menghis

(1 - 157-1092)

157-556, Possible Racial, Violence, Major Urban Aress)

157-1097,

Washington spring Project)

(2

157165

(3CLC)

(1

-

100-4105,

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.)

(1 c

66-1687 sub&, Dissemination

File)

(14)

Approved:

This document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi-

"ätion ortside your Committee.

Its use is limited to official proceedings by

i wit the content may not be disclosed to unauthorized person-

met mithen the eareas approval of the FBl.

Sent

Per

1H

55117

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N:: 157-1042

JE*D*:

101. NET AND WAS LYCAOS FUSED DAVISIONS:

Information copies sre being furnished in vie

of these officos' interest in MARTIN LUTHER KING, M.,

a8d the Washington Spring Project.

MERELIC DIVISION

A2 BUS, E

Will follow and advise Bureau pertinent developments.

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"nodo.

UNITED STATES DEPIRTKENT OF JUSTICO

FEDERÁL BUREAU OF INVESTICATION

1250615,

Marci 26, 1050

2922.721T.

MES SMI,

Macadl1100

in will bo recalled thoi d4 vas 20302400 17і

senchisation dated March 20, 1000, 66 Kerphio, texr-e136

crat

cererond Hartin luchor cing

15o, Prosidono, Souszor:

Tristina Leadership Confaronce li4a6, vas scroducoe s

Ined & cass march in cowntown Morphis on the corning os

Macch se, 1960, in support on tho altring Morphis canzuccior

workers Who a10 still on surice, nig Strire naving cagur

acheduled to address a mss atrite-cupore cally at Claybon

Tonnoscoe, which fenpio, is

in Christ, at 7:30 p.i.,

March 20, 1963.

On che evening of rare. I7, 1068, & tirSt souCi

avised that Reverend kigs

accorpunied by one (Dirot For

2. 10u1) Lee, was scheduice to crive in Memphio, Tezressse,

36 10:98 #.i,, Larch 23, 1907, on Anerican Airlines Flighi

1o. 217, from New York,

New York:.

mis source ad that tine had no infornation conserring

dmy scheduled departure of loverend King fron honphis.

On the norning of Marc:: 66, 1030,

chut it had baen rollably accertained that Fing

and Leo hive roservations io depart kenphis, Tennessee, aü

9:05 p.i., Cextral Standord Tine,

march as,

1960, sboard

lines riight 320, due

%o arrive

Atlenta, Coorgin,

in:03 Di,, Lestern Standard Tire, Luich 28, 1908; aud Chi

King 1s0 #

Janglard, e: 7:12 8.D., March 20, 1003.

This document is prepared in

an responde do your request and is not for dissemi

nation outside your Committee.

Its use is limited-to: official proceedings by

your Committce and the content may not be disclosed to unauthorized person

nel without the express' approvat.of the FBI.

• HH 55117 - DooId:3298956dPage-51-,-

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SANITATION WORKERS STRIKE,

MSHPHIS, TENNESSEE

The "Connercial Appeal" newspaper, issue of

March 28, 1968, reported that Union leaders representing

striking sanitation workers walked out of mediation

talks with City government representatives at heuphs,

Tennessee, in connection with the T-week sanitation strike,

said walkout being at 6 p.l., March 27, 1968.

The break-off

came during the third day of

Mediator Frank B, Miles.

The Union called a press conference at 6:30 p.i.,

March' 27, 1968, at Clayborn Temple where indiviquals col.

nected with the Union charged mayor Henry Loeb in eriect

had tied the City Committee's hands on the crucial issue of

Union recognition. The Union charged, according to the

paper, that the biggest roadblock was a contention by the

Committee that it had no power to agree on anything.

that only the Mayor could make any binding agreenents.

The City Committee, however, claimed that the Union

demanded that it first be recognized as an exclusive

bargaining agent before any other points of issue could

be discussed, with the impasse resulting.

The same issue of the newspaper reported that

on the night of March 27, 1968, Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy,

Vice President at Large of the

SCLC, spoke to about five

trucks with their bodies.

The paper further reported that

sanitation officials had reported that 95 trucks were on

the streets, March 26, 1968, the most since the curb-side

pickoup system was started shortly after the start of the

strike.

Also on the morning of March 28, 1968, source one

advised that it had been ascertained that

Reverend Ralph D

Abernathy would also accompany King and Lee on their departure

from Memphis via Eastern Airlines Flight 398, to leave hempta

đt 9:05 p.M., March 28, 1968.

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SANITATION WORKERS STRIKE,

NAMPHIS. TENNESSEE

The above information furnished by source

• one

was furnished on March 28, 1968, to Representatives of

Army Intelligence Corps, Memphis, Temessee.

This document contains neither recommendations nor

conclusions of the FBI.

It is the property of the FBI and

is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be

distributed outside

your

agency.

MH 55117

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In Reply, Picase Refer to

File No.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Menphis, Tennessee

March 28, 1968

Title:

Character:

SANITATION WORKERS STRIKE,

MIMPH IS, TENNESSE

RACIAL MATTERS

Reference:

Memorandum prepared at

Memphis, Tennessee, dated and captioned as above.

All sources (except any listed below) whose

identities are concealed in referenced communication have

furnished reliable information in the past.

This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions

of the FBI,

It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your

agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside

your agency.

IN 55117 DocId:32989564 Page 57

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FBI WASH DC*

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

MAR 2 8 1968

TELETYPE

FBI MEMPHIS

456PM URGENT 3-28-68 MCP

MI. Tolson.

Mr. HeLnach

Mr.

Mi.

Birhop..

Mr. Casper.

Mr. Callahan.

Mr. ('inrad-

Mr. FrIt_

Mr. Gile.

Mr. Rosen

Mr. Sullivan E

Mr. Tavel.

Mr. Trotter-

Tal. Room

Mas Holmes-

las Gandy

TO DIRECTOR AND WO

FROM

MEMPHIS 157-1092

2 P

RACIAL MATTERS.

SANITATION WORKERS STRIKE, MEMPHIS, TENN.., RM.

tabihin

RE MEMPHIS TELS TODAY.

LI. E. Ho ARKIN, INSPECIIONAL BUREAU, MEMPHIS PD, ADVISED

AFTERNOON OF MARCH TWENTY EIGHT THAT SPORADIC LOOTING CONTINUES

PRIMARILY IN SOUTH MEMPHIS, A HEAVILY POPULATED NEGRO AREA, ORACLA

AND THAT APPROXIMATELY ONE HUNDRED ISOLATED ARRESTS RELATING

TO LOOTING AND DISORDERLY CONDUCT HAVE BEEN MADE BY MEMPHIS PD.

HE ADDED THAI RAMPANI RUMORS EXISTED IN MEMPHIS THAI CITY BUS

DRIVERS WERE BEING ASSAULTED BUI THAT THIS DEFINITELY WAS NOT

TRUE, THAI OFFICIALS OF MEMPHIS IRANSIT AUTHORITY, WHICH

OPERATES CITY BUSES, MET WITH MEMPHIS MAYOR HENRY LOEB AND DIRECTOR

OF POLICE AND FIRE DEPIS. FRANK C. HOLLOMAN, AND DECIDED' TO STOP

THE OPERATION OF BUSES INDEFINITELY AS DRIVERS FEARED

9146-535

BEING

ASSAULTED AND ROBBED.

Ex-103

REC 5

LT. ARKIN ADDED, AS DID WILLIAM BRAY, ONE HUNDRED ELEVEN T968

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CORPS, THIRD ARMY, MEMPHIS, THAT MEMPHIS

MUMNITS

OF TENNESSEE NATIONAL GUARD ARE NOW

ON DUTY BUT CURRENTLY

6

TO RUROX

MAR IDUU

ise

BESS LITU

so ahis documenris Decimend in a romercropin tequest and is not for

ssemi-

"Its use-as limited to official proceedings by

• Sammice and the

Tr:

fr5T

content may not be disclosed to unauthorized person..

net without the express approval of the FBI.

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PAGE TWO

CONFINED TO NATIONAL GUARD HEADQUARTERS NEAR FAIRGROUNDS AREA

OF MEMPHIS IN MID-TOWN, AND THAI APPROXIMATELY FOUR THOUSAND

NATIONAL GUARDSMEN ASSIGNED TO VARIOUS WEST TENN. UNITS ARE

ON A SIAND-BY SASIS. DECISION HAS NOT BEEN MADE AS TO WHETHER

TO HAVE GUARDSMEN PATROL MEMPHIS NIGHT OF MARCH IWENTY EIGHI.

LI. ARKIN ADDED THAT THE MASSIVE RALLY ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED

FOR MASON TEMPLE AT SEVEN THIRTY P.M., FEATURED SPEAKER TO BE REV.

MARIIN LUTHER KING, JR., HAS NOT BEEN CANCELLED. HE FEARS THAT

SPORADIC TROUBLE WILL CONTINUE TONIGHI, PARTICULARLY IF THE

RALLY TAKES PLACE AS SCHEDULED.

SOURCE ONE ADVISED THAT THERE HAS BEEN NO CHANGE IN KING'S

SCHEDULED DEPARTURE, AND THAT KING, ALONG WITH SPECIAL AIDE

BERNARD LEE AND REV. RALPH D. ABERNATHY, VICE PRESIDENI, SCLO,

ALL SCHEDULED TO DEPART MEMPHIS AI NINE ZERO FIVE P.M., CST,

EASTERN AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE NINE EIGHI, EN ROUTE AILANIA.

Included in letter to Winite House

LHM FOLLOWS.

and Attorney General. Date? - 29-65

MINISTRATIVE: SOURCE ONE IS NATHASH HSIANO MANAGER, CET";

WEIDENTIT

EASTERN AIRLINES MEMPHIS.

GJM

FBI WASH

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

MAR 2 8 1968

TELETYPE

FBI MEMPHIS

114PM URGENT 3-28-68 MCP

Tolson

Mr.

DeLoach.

Mr.

Mohr

Mr. Bishop-

Mi. Casper.

Mr. Callahan

MI. Conrad.

Mr. Folt -_

Mr. Gale --

Mr. Tavel.

Mr. Trotter

Tele. Room.

Miss Holmes_

Miss Gandy.

TO DIRECTOR AND WO

FROM

MEMPHIS 157-1092

FACIAL MATTERS

SANITATION WORKERS STRIKE, MEMPHIS, TENN.; RM.

ON MARCH IWENTY EIGHT INSTANI, LT. E. H. ARKIN, INSPECTIONAL

BUREAU, HEMPHIS, JENN, PD, ADVISED REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING

ONG

JR. ARRIVED MEMPHIS AROUND TEN A.M. AND PROCEEDED TO CLAYBORN

TEMPLE LOCATED HEART OF NEGRO AREA, MEMPHIS, AND HEADED

THE SCHEDULED DOWNTOWN MASS MARCH IN SUPPORI OF MEMPHIS SANI- L'

TATION STRIKE WITH MARCHERS ESTIMATED BY POLICE TO BE FIVE TO

SIX THOUSAND IN NUMBER, LEAVING TEMPLE AREA AI APPROXIMATELY

ELEVEN A.M. CST. THE PARADE MARSHALS WERE UNABLE TO FORM

ANY ORDERLINESS TO MARCHERS AND AS CROWD MOVED IN NEGRO

NEIGHBORHOOD IT BEGAN BREAKING WINDOWS AND ENGAGING IN SPORADIC LOOT-

ING. KING

REMAINED WITH CROWD, BEING IN AN AUTOMOBILE

IN PRONE, UNTIL II REACHED SOUIN END OF MAIN NEAR SAYOSE

• REC

WHICH PUT IT INTO THE DOWNTOWN BUSINESS AREA•

AT THIS POINT

157-9146-36

KING DISASSOCIATED SELF FROM MARCH AND LEFIVOSTENSIBLY IO GO

REA

PEABODY HOTEL. AS CROWD CAME NORTH ON MAIN FROM BEALE, 'AN AREA?

OF ONE BLOCK, SEVERAL STORE FRONI, WINDOWS WERE BROKEN, AND SOME

LOOTING WAS REPORTED IN A LIQUOR STORE AND AT YORK ARMS CO., A LARGE

ISPORTING GOODS ESTABLISHMENI. NO GUNS WERE TAKEN AS ALL HAD

301968

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KELAYED TO

A ThIS dOMEMAL DACHeFOReaHE DIRECTOR to your request and is not for dissemi-

won outside your committee: Its usenis limiteato official proceedings b?

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BEEN LOCKED UP PREVIOUSLY. SOME LOOTING WAS REPORTED. AS GROUP

REACHED GAYOSO AND MAIN, POLICE BLOCKADED STREET AND ATTEMPTED TO

DISPERSE THE CROWD AND SUCCEEDED IN DISPERSING CROWD IN A

REVERSE DIRECTION BACK IOWARD CLAYBORN TEMPLE. ADDITIONAL

WINDOW BREAKING AND SOME LOOTING REPORIEDLY OCCURRED AS GROUP

RETURNED TO TEMPLE AREA, ACCORDING IO LI. ARKIN, AND POLICE

HAVE USED TEARGAS TO FURTHER DISPERSE CROWD WHICH HAS NOW

DISPERSED IN FOUR DIRECTIONS FROM CLAYBORN TEMPLE STILL BEING

CONCENTRATED IN NEGRO NEIGHBORHOODS NEARBY•

AT THIS POINT, MEMPHIS PD DOES NOT KNOW IF ANY ARRESIS

HAVE TAKEN PLACE AND DOES NOT KNOW OF ANY INJURIES OR DEATHS•

ONE UNVERIFIED REPORT STATES A POLICE OFFICER HAS BEEN INJURED,

NATURE OF INJURIES NOI KNOWN. LI. ARKIN CONTINUED THAT MEMPHIS

MAYOR HENRY LOEB HAS REQUESTED ASSISTANCE OF TENNESSEE NATIONAL

GUARD TO DISPERSE THE MOB AND RESTORE ORDER IN MEMPHIS BEFORE

NIGHTFALL. MEMPHIS NATIONAL GUARD EXPECTED TO BE MOBILIZED

AND ON DUTY BY TWO P.M. CSI AND ANOTHER UNIT FROM JACKSON, TENN.,

APPROXIMATELY EIGHTY MILES EAST OF MEMPHIS, EXPECTED 10

BE IN. MEMPHIS BY SIX'P:M. CSI.

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A FIRST SOURCE ADVISED MARCH TWENTY EIGHT INSTANT KING

ACCOMPANIED BY ONE (FNU) LEE AND REV. RALPH D. ABERNATHY,

VICE-PRESIDENI, SCLC, SCHEDULED IO LEAVE MEMPHIS NINE ZERO FIVE

P.M. CST, MARCH IWENTY EIGHT INSTANT ON EASTERN AIRLINES

FLIGHI THREE NINE EIGHI TO ARRIVE ATLANTA, GA., ELEVEN ZERO

THREE P.M. EST AND KING SCHEDULED TO DEPARI ATLANTA SIX TWENTY

A•Me EST: MARCH IWENTY NINE NEXT ON DELTA AIRLINES FLIGHT

THREE ZERO FOUR TO ARRIVE BALTIMORE, MD..

SEVEN FORTY TWO A.M.

EST, FRIENDSHIP AIRPORI.

ADMINISTRATIVE:

MEMPHIS CONTINJING TO FOLLOW PERTINENT DEVELOPMENTS

THROUGH CLOSE CUOPERATION WITH MEMPHIS PD. MEMPHIS MAINTAINING

CLOSE LIAISON WITH MEMPHIS PD AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE AND WILL

KEEP BUREAU ADVISED PERINENT DEVELOPMENIS. ALL RACIAL SOUCES

HAVE BEEN ALERTED TO IMMEDIATLY ADVISE OF ANY PERTINENT

INFO DEVELOPED BY THEM•

LICHM FOLLOWS. P. HL

GFH

HL

HOLD. END.

Mr: 12bila

FBI WASH DC*

Included in letier to White House

aad Attorney General, Date 3-29-68

CHU.

date tain

TNIl 61314-066

3/28/68

& MR. SULLIVAN

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