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Independence Day Rally by Negroes in Chicago Today
NAACP convention projected to draw up to 100000 people in downtown Chicago. Freedom marchers planned to loop from the Loop to Grant Park to press for ending segregation in Southern and Northern schools. Charles Evers and Ruby Hurley criticized FBI handling of civil rights violations while NAACP field secretaries warned that progress cannot be halted by violence.
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Ment of Colored People
Freedom
Loop
Grant Park
Naacp State Council
Jackson, Miss
FBI
Charles Evers
Medgar Evers
Grant Naacp
Jackson
Ruby Hurley
Mississippi
Washington
NAACP
Associated Press