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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1967
Page
2
Roy Wilkins, executive director of the NAACP, warned at the Boston convention that riots could erupt if whites do not aid Black Americans with jobs housing and economic security. He criticized Black Power as provocative and urged multiracial cooperation to advance civil rights without ethnic confrontation.
AFL-CIO President George Meany restated the federation’s firm support for civil rights legislation in a message to the NAACP convention in Boston, urging a national fair housing law and stronger federal enforcement against discrimination while acknowledging a secretly conducted poll among white union members. The poll reportedly found concerns about desegregation impacting property values. leaders say white voter backlash may be overstated.
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