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FREEDOMWAYS   FOURTH QUARTER 1966

United Nations and talk with the Committee on Human Rights. This Committee, known as the Third Committee, has a special Subcommittee on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities (no less). On November 20, 1963, the General Assembly of the United Nations unanimously adopted a Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. In so doing, it re-affirmed the principles contained in the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that all human beings are equal in dignity and rights.

So it would be quite in order, and proper for us to go and have a chat with the United Nations Third Committee.

It might be a good idea if all of us - 28 million Negroes including the babies - wake up on a Monday morning, get dressed in our Sunday best, and walk out onto the streets to show ourselves in our solidarity. Just walk, and say to each other, and to everyone we meet: "Freedom! Freedom Now! NOW!" Then return home at noon, have lunch, and go about our regular business.

This could be a sort of general strike. Nothing illegal, nothing violent. If all of us are in the streets just walking (that's what streets are for) instead of on the job (which many of us don't have), the enemy can't very well arrest us, or call out the dogs and the National Guard.

Well, well. We must all think of lots more things to do, together, during this long hot summer.
    
SELMA, ALABAMA
March, 1965

NEGRO AMERICANS, white progressive Americans, and many many hitherto uncommitted Americans who watch the naked force-and-violence of the vicious law officials of Alabama against peacefully marching Negroes are coming to a slow but sure boil of indignation, anger, resistance and revolt.

There is a state-of-emergency in Alabama today, and a clear and desperate need for the Federal Government to intervene to restore law and order, justice, freedom and peace in the state of Alabama, in the Deep South generally, and in these United States. Here and NOW.

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