Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Dorothy I. Height A. Philip Randolph Whitney M. Young, Jr. in behalf of the AMERICAN NEGRO LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON AFRICA hereby issue a CALL to All National Negro Organizations to the Second National Conference on "THE AMERICAN NEGRO CITIZEN'S ROLE IN THE PURSUIT OF A MORE EFFECTIVE UNITED STATES' POLICY IN AFRICA' in Washington, D. C. Thursday evening, September 24, through Sunday morning, September Z7, 1964. at the Shoreham Hotel *Sponsored By: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.; Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.; American Society of African Culture; American Committee on Africa; Bible Way Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ World Wide; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, AFL- CIO; California Negro Leadership Conference; Chicago Daily Defender; Congress of Racial Equality; Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. ; Gandhi Society for Human Rights, Inc. ; The Links, Inc. ; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; National Association of Fashion and Accessory Designers, Inc. ; National Council of Negro Women; National Newspaper Publishers Association; National Urban League; Negro American Labor Council; Operation Crossroads Africa, Inc. ; I Phelps-Stokes Fund; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Trade Union Leadership Council; United Automobile Workers of America, AFL-CIO; United Packinghouse Workers of America, AFL- CIO; United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO; Western Christian Leadership Conference. *Partial Listing. All communications to: Conference Director: Theodore E. Brown Suite 1203, 15 East 40th Street New York, New York, 10016 Tel: LExington 2-1640. James Farmer Roy Wilkins

THE CONFERENCE WILL STUDY, ANALYZE AND FORMULATE A POSITION ON THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS: The Inter-relationship between Domestic Race Problems and United States Foreign Policy. Relations of American Negroes and Africans Image of the American Negro in Africa Relationship of African Students and American Negro Students; Their Problems and Future. United States Contribution to the Development of Education for Africans Employment and Appointment of American Negroes in the State Department, including Foreign Service a) Analysis of Present and Past b) What of the Future? U.S. Private Organizations (Business Foundations and Educational) - Their Policies with Respect to the Negro. Analysis of United States Aid in Africa United States Policy: Angola & Mozambique Congo igh Commission Territories outh Africa fSnithern Rhodesia South West Africa Independent Africa Analysis of United States Government Agencies, other than State and Aid, in respect to their foreign programs and activities in Africa The principal work of the conference will be accomplished through a series of seminars. The policies of the conference will be set forth in a set of resolutions resulting from plenary sessions. Planning Committee Theodore E. Brown, Chmn. Aaron Brown Robert Browne Robert Carter Isobel Clark John A. Davis Maurice Dawkins Ted Harris Clinton Hoggard Frederic E. Morrow John Morsell William Oliver Samuel R. Pierce, Jr. E. Washington Rhodes James H. Robinson Hope R. Stevens John M. Thornton Wyatt Tee Walker Please address all inquiries regarding the conference program, registration, hotel accommodations, position papers and general information to the Conference Director, Theodore E. Brown. q 150