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N.Y. march links peace

and civil rights groups
By Richard Schnelriw

NEW YORK, April 15 — Last Satur-
day’s New York pence march spectacu-
larly marked the linking or the civil
rights movement to the peace move
ment. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. of
SCLC; Stokely Carmichael of SNCC; and
Floyd McKissick [if CORE all spoke from
the same platform calling ior an end
to the war in Vietnam.

Dr. King, key speaker at the rally
and now the main spokesman for both
the ewil rights and the peace mnve~
merits declared, “The war has divert-
Ecl attention from civil rights, The
Great Society has been shot down on
the battlefields of Vietnam. . .I would
like to see the Iervor nf the civil rights
movement imbued into the peace move-
ment. 1 think that everybody has the

 

duty to be in both Ihe civil
peace movements."

The peace march, estil
lice at. 125,000, was Organi
Spring Mobilization to End
Viet nam. The idea for the
originated with the late Rev
te who was looking for a
volve the many antiwar
single mass demonstration.
Bevel, aid to Dr. King’s sc
agreed to serve as national c

As the campaign ior th
demonstration gathered
various radical groups jni
ing communists, anarchist,
tes, and Maoists. Thls caus
easiness among the mo.
group such as Women Strik
but only the National Com
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drew its support.

The mobilization soon gai
port of civil lighters as
sized the great burden t