Required by a new Little Rock city ordinance to file reports on membership and finances, three segregationist organizations did. But the real target of the ordinance, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, fearing to bring its members and contributors under increased pressure in emotion-torn Little Rock, refused. Last week the city council ordered the arrest of N.A.A.C.P. Leaders Joseph C. Crenchaw and Daisy Bates. Crenchaw, 74, a Baptist preacher who is president of the local N.A.A.C.P. chapter, gave himself up, was booked and released on $300 bond. Daisy Bates, president of the N.A.A.C.P.'s Arkansas branch,...
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