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[[caption]] Pics were taken when Ben attended a fund raiser in the Tabernacle, Camp Grounds, Oak Bluffs in honor of the late Kive Kaplan; Nat'l. Newspaper Publishers' Convention, Tulsa Oklahoma and the Congressional Black Caucus Meetings, Wash., D.C. [[/caption]]


and Congress in the development of meaningful job programs. We will be holding meetings in order to follow through on the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Law.

We have sounded the alarm on the high cost of energy. We are serving notice on America that black Americans, like all other citizens, are concerned about the high cost of energy and its impact on the poor. Escalating inflation in the midst of an ever deepening recession, the lack of energy and of any comprehensive plan to do anything for the poor and the powerless constitute an intolerable situation. Some people are being forced to spend more than 30 percent of their income just to cover fuel costs.

We have come to Louisville tonight to serve notice on this country that we will be engaged in these and many other fields in the months ahead. Just the other day, while we were still celebrating the decision in the Weber case, we were confronted with the Mottl Amendment being discharged and sent to the House of Representatives for a vote. If this measure is passed by two-thirds of the House and the Senate and three-fourths of the states, our Constitution would ban all busing and effectively stop desegregation in its tracks.

So we have decided at this convention that we are going to "bottle" the Mottl Amendment. We shall leave Louisville and meet with out congress people and senators in their home districts to let them know that we oppose this racist legislation. We shall let them know that it will be a dark and infamous day in America's history if the Congress of these United States of America pass this vicious and dirty amendment and graft it upon the organic law of this nation.

We are serving notice tonight that we are going to hold a prayer vigil in Washington, D.C., on the steps of the U.S. Capitol Building at high noon on July 20, to demand the defeat of the Mottl measure.

We will also take our protest to every state capital to let every state official know of our opposition to this overt effort to turn back the clock on efforts to desegregate our nation's schools.

We shall not take Mottl lying down. We will meet them wherever we find people like Mottl. We are prepared to fight them on the mountaintop or in the valley. We simply shall not, we cannot, we will not be turned back from our path.

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