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acy as Jackson, Miss.

[[bold]]To occupy[[/bold]] these fortresses, to bring down the ramparts of these racist strong-points will require a well coordinated combined attack in which all the popular organizations of freedom-loving Americans must take part.

Would it not be a good thing to convene a national consultation of all the heads of participating organizations in the Negro peoples freedom struggle, to elaborate a common battle plan for launching a combined operation for reducing the last remaining bastions of bigotry in the South - such as in represented by Jackson, Miss.?

It will be necessary in such a place as Jackson, Miss., to sever the police arm from the ruling body of racist reactionaries who are defying the Federal authority and it will be necessary to organize the defense of the lives and liberties of the protesting victims of racism with the aid and full authority of the Federal police power.

It may be necessary to supplement the economic boycott and mass public protest demonstrations with a version of an economic general strike: and extended work-holiday on the part of the Negro toilers and their

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white supporters until substantial steps are taken to break the segregation chains.

[[bold]]An intensive[[/bold]] campaign of explanation, of missionary canvassing among the white youth, trade unionists, church people, teachers and professionals will need to be carried through in conformation with a general plan which would draw on the new committments of the National Council of Churches, the United Auto Workers, and other national organizations who have expressed their resolve to join in the crusade to bring the civil rights revolution to a speedy victory.

Furthermore, in addition to pressure being kept upon the government to enforce and secure the right of Negro citizens, the Attorney General must be prevailed  upon to take legal initiatives to bring such enemies of the nation as Ross Barnett, Governor George Wallace and Al Lingo before the bar of justice and to prosecute such racist organizations as the KKK and the White Citiezns Councils. James O. Eastland's occupancy of a seat in the U.S. Senate should be challenged.

[[bold]]But in addition[[/bold]] to these measures, the influence of the Government should be brought

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