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38 PARK ROW NEW YORK 38, NEW YORK COrtlandt 7-6270 March 12, 1964

James Farmer national director Richard Haley associate Gordon Carey assistant Carl Rachlin, Esq. general counsel ADVISORY COMMITTEE Mr. .Julian Bond Ralph Abernathy James Baldwin 8~ Raymond Street, N.W. Roger N. Baldwin Katrina M. Barnes Atlanta, Georgia Algernon D. Black James B. Carey .Allan Knight Chalmers Grenville Clark Dear Mr. Bond: John C:>gley Earl B. Dickerson Eugene E. Frazier Harold Gibbons Miss Sheila B. Michaels has volunteered to be a member of CORK's Roland B. Gittelsohn Sidney Hollander Task Force, and haa given us your name as a reference. We would George M. Houser E. Stanley Jones appreciate your sending us as soon as possible your appraisal of Bishop F. D. Jordan Martin Luther King this individual. Doug las Levin David livingston Will Maslow A. J. Muste Please conment on the applicant's past participation in non-viol -*<: Dorothy Norman A. Philip Randolph action projects or her participation in other civil rights groups; Ira DeA. Reid Walter P. Reuther her ability to function in a situation of tension; her ability to Hobson R. Reynolds Jackie Robinson follow group discipline and her cOmmitment to the CORE direct, non• Arnold M. Rose Fred M. Shuttlesworth violent action approach to civil rights. Any comments on the appli• lillian Smith C. K. Steelg cant's general qualifications and personal stability will be Gardner Taylor Howard Thurman appreciated. Bishop W. J. Walls Goodwin Watson .J oseph Willen Jerry Wurf Charles S. Zim merman · ncerely, , ; OFFICERS ./l Floyd B. McKissick chairman Rudolph Lombard ; :»l J!/k~ 1st vice chairman . Wilfred Ussery 2nd vice chairman JTM./jz ames T. McCain Ralph Rosenfelt:l secretary , irector of Organization Alan Gartner treasurer James Peck COREiator editor

STAFF Norman Hill program director James McCain director of organization Marvin Rich community relations director

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JUle 1 f. MoCain Di~eoto~ ot ora&Dizat1on CORK )8. Park Kow lfew York 38. New York

Dear Sir1 I oan reooa.end Miaa Michaela higbl7 aa a potential Taak Poroe work••· Sbe haa exhibited aa. unuauai villlngneas to work at a Yariet, o~ taaka.

I do feel~ hove•er, that heP greatest talents lie in the field ot publioitr ~ proaotioa. and 'h•• ahe 11 hiably. akille4 ia layou' and deaisn. How•••r• I think. aha ~ill be an aaae' to COftE 1D any situation.

Sino•••ly. ' i .. •) . ' ' I n - Horace Julian B~ , ·l j):) .f- C~unioationa Dtreotor SNCO ..

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