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...
Nation: Angry at Everybody
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