Nation: Angry at Everybody

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, meeting in Chicago, lashed out on all political sides. Southern Democrats, cried Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins, were members of a "calculating clique" that uses Washington "as the seat of a conspiracy to continue human slavery under another name. Let there be no uncertainty. There will be a massive march on Washington as a living petition for a redress of old, old grievances." As for Senate Republicans and their leader Everett Dirksen: "The Dirksen leadership can bring on moral disaster for the Republican Party . . . We intend to work for...

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