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Rights leaders plan effort to ease Cleveland tensions
Nine national rights groups plan a joint summer drive to reduce unrest in Cleveland, aiming to boost local programs in education employment housing and political action while strengthening ties with Cleveland groups. The effort follows July rioting in the Hough area and involves leaders from King McKissick Wilkins Height Young Rustin and others.
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Cleveland
New York
Rea
George Livingston
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Kenneth B. Clark
Clark
A Suffern, N.Y
Martin Luther King, Jr
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Floyd McKissick
Congress of Racial Equality
Roy Wilkins
The
NAACP
Jack Greenburg
Naacp Legal Defense Fund
Dorothy Height
National Council of Negro Women
Whitney Young
National Urban League
Bayard Rustin
A. Philip Randolph Institute
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee