American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa

Suite 700A, 15 East 40th Street, New York 17, N .Y./LE 2-1640-1

All communications to: Theodore E . Brown Director December 13, 1962 CALL COMMITTEE Martin Luther King, Jr. A . Philip Randolph Dear Sir The American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa

held a three day conference on the Arden House Campus

of Columbia University at Harriman, New York on November

23, 24, 25.

This conference brought together 100 of America's

top Negro organizational leaders for the purpose of analyzing

The Role of the American Negro Community in U .S . Policy in

Africa,. The work was principally in workshops and plenary

sessions, preceded by nine background papers prepared prior

to the conference by eminent authorities.

We are enclosing a copy of the Resolutions Report of that

conference in the hope that you might find its contents of

interest . Sincerely yours,

Theodore E. Brown Director

Encl .

CONFERENCE SPONSORS (partial list) FRATERNITY, INC ./AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON AFRICA/AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AFRICAN CULTURE BROTHERHOOD OF SLEEPING CAR PORTERS, AFL-CIO/CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY/DELTA SIGMA THETA SORORITY, INC. GANDHI SOCIETY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS/IMPROVED BENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE WORLD NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE/NATIONAL COUNCIL OF NEGRO WOMEN NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION/NATIONAL NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIA710N/NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE NEGRO AMERICAN LABOR COUNCIL/OPERATION CROSSROADS AFRICA, INC ./PHELPS-STOKES FUND SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE/STUDENT NON-VIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE/TRADE UNION LEADERSHIP COUNCIL UNITED STEELWORKERS OF AMERICA, AFL-CIO/WESTERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE.

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AMERICAN NEGRO LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON AFRICA Resolutions

ARDEN HOUSE CAMPUS OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

HARRIMAN, NEW YORK NOVEMBER 23, 24, 25, 1962 AMERICAN NEGRO LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON AFRICA

Conference Sponsors (Partial Listing)

ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY, INC. NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY, INC. NEGRO AMERICAN LABOR COUNCIL AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON AFRICA OPERATION CROSSROADS AFRICA, INC. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AFRICAN CULTURE PHELPS-STOKES FUND BROTHERHOOD OF SLEEPING CAR PORTERS, AFL-CIO SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY STUDENT NON-VIOLENT COORDINATING DELTA SIGMA THETA SORORITY, INC. COMMITTEE GANDHI SOCIETY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS THE BIBLE WAY CHURCH OF IMPROVED BENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE ORDER OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST OF ELKS OF THE WORLD THE LINKS, INC. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE TRADE UNION LEADERSHIP COUNCIL NATIONAL COUNCIL OF NEGRO WOMEN UNITED STEELWORKERS OF AMERICA, NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION A.F.L .-C.I .O. NATIONAL NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS' WESTERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE

Call Committee

James Farmer A. Philip Randolph Dorothy I . Height Roy Wilkins Martin Luther King, Jr . Whitney M . Young, Jr.

Planning Committee

John A . Davis John Morsell James Farmer Guichard Parris George Houser Samuel R. Pierce Clarence Jones A. Philip Randolph David Jones James Robinson Frank Montero Hope R. Stevens

Theodore E . Brown, Conference Director Resolutions

PREAMBLE We rededicate and reaffirm our ethnic bond with and historic concern for the peoples of Africa and our com- The struggle for freedom and equality is world wide. plete solidarity with their aspirations for freedom, human It has reached a critical state in Africa. In the Portuguese rights and independence. territories, particularly Angola and Mozambique, in We commit ourselves to a wholesale involvement in South Africa, South West Africa, the Congo, the Central the affairs of Africa and the yearning of the African African Federation and Kenya the Africans' fight for people for full freedom, and we call upon the entire freedom has reached a decisive stage . We rejoice with Negro community in the United States to join with us in those nations of Africa who have recently achieved inde- this commitment to the end that our total influence as a pendence and who have taken their place in the com- group will be used to aid Africans in their toward munity of free nations. Without overlooking the enor- freedom. mous problems of these young countries, it is the unfree areas of Africa to which we address ourselves in this conference. Accordingly, we resolve: The American Negro community in the United States has a special responsibility to urge a dynamic African policy upon our government . Although we have a serious civil rights problem which exhausts much of our energy, Recent events in the Congo underscore the need for we cannot separate this struggle at home from that close scrutiny of the actions of our own government in abroad. If the United States cannot take vigorous action relation to Africa. We are opposed to the continued ex- to help win freedom in Africa, we cannot expect to main- ploitation of Africans in the Congo and frustration of tain the trust and friendship of the newly independent their natural aspirations ; equally we are opposed to such and soon-to-be independent peoples of Africa and Asia. exploitation and subjugation of Africans in those areas Further, the American Negro community has a re- not yet free and the thwarting of their aspirations for sponsibility in simple terms of historical continuity . Since freedom. To that end we pledge ourselves to be informed the turn of the century Negro leaders and scholars have and eternally vigilant concerning the policies and actions expressed the concern of Negro for the of our government relating to any part of Africa. elimination of colonialism and its evils. While our con- We recognize the critical need for across-the-board ference will not initiate a new interest on the part of educational assistance to the people in those areas in American Negroes, it will launch a more aggressive de- Africa which are the concern of this conference . We are termination to make our influence felt on the policies convinced that the situation demands a crash program, of our government in these critical areas of that vast which will include the introduction in these areas of aid, continent. such as the Nyasaland Teacher Placement Project of the We, at this first American Negro Leadership Confer- Peace Corps, as well as an urgent acceleration in provid- ence on Africa, meeting at Arden House in Harriman, ing full scholarships for the advanced training, both New York, strongly endorse the principle of the Charter technical and professional, of Africans in the United of the United Nations which commits the signatories to States . We especially urge the State Department to ex- "promote and encourage respect for human rights and pand its program of educational and cultural services to fundamental freedoms for all, without distinction as to facilitate the education and development of the people race, sex, language or religion ." We call upon all the in this part of the world. signatories, and especially upon the United States, to We call upon the leaders of organized religions in the pursue in Africa a policy designed to achieve these goals. United States to re-evaluate the role of the churches in We assert our belief that the achievement of these ob- its missionary activities in respect to the training and use jectives conforms to the commitments of the United of indigenous leaders and of Africans in the other related States expressed in the Declaration of Independence, and professions and to reconstruct its goals in terms of the in the Constitution of the United States, and in our na- need of the African people for education and for training tional policy expressed notably in Supreme Court deci- in modern day skills and techniques, and in terms of the sions, and executive orders forbidding discrimination on Africans' aspirations for freedom and independence. the basis of race, color, religion or national origin, in the We look with disfavor and deplore the use of any arm Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960, and further ex- of our government to protect those who are working for pounded in state laws and municipal ordinances prohibit- interests that are inimical to the interest of the people ing discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion or of the Congo, Angola, Mozambique and other areas of national origin . Africa of especial interest of this conference . In view of the patent need due to long years of eco- We recognize that the United States prohibits the ship- nomic and cultural deprivation, we urge our government ment of arms to South Africa designed for use in the to review its policy of economic aid to Africa and sug- implementation of apartheid, but we call upon the Gov- gest that it develop programs comparable in scope and ernment to undertake a total embargo of war material to magnitude to those programs administered in Europe. the South African Republic, because no practical distinc- tion can be made between weapons for maintaining apart- heid and weapons for ally other purpose. II—American Negro Participation We call upon United States business firms to cease in United States Programs in Africa lending money to South Africa and to withdraw invest- ments from that country since such financial transactions In spite of pledges by the State Department that it can only strengthen the present racist government. would follow a policy of fair employment, we find that We urge the United States Government to actively Negro citizens are still excluded from top level jobs in discourage any public or private economic aid to South the area of policy making. Africa. We urge the Department to make appointments of We urge the State Department to include opponents of Negro citizens to high level policy posts. the apartheid policy among the South African recipients We call for an end to the restriction of ambassadorial of leadership grants. appointments to one or two persons of color. We call upon individual Americans to join the growing We urge recruitment of more Negro Foreign Service international boycott of South African goods. staff personnel and Foreign Service Reserve personnel We demand that the United States Armed Forces cease and equal assignment for such persons. military maneuvers in cooperation with South African We urge the recruitment of Negro Foreign Service forces and the use of South African waters or bases. Officer Personnel, not only through the Foreign Service We urge that the United States abandon the practice Officer Entry Examination, but also by lateral transfer of excluding American Negroes from its missions to the and lateral examination from the Foreign Service Staff Republic of South Africa and Africans from affairs spon- and Foreign Service Reserve Corps. sored by the American Embassy and all other United We are disturbed by the failure of American founda- States Missions in that country. tions to include Negro citizens in policy posts handling We urge the American Olympic Committee to fight African affairs . We call upon them to appoint distin- for the exclusion of South Africa from the coming Olym- guished and competent American Negroes to their Boards pic games unless that nation permits all South African and to top staff positions. athletes to compete for places on its team without regard We view with disapproval the policy of philanthropic to race or color. foundations in ignoring predominantly Negro institutions We oppose the efforts of the Republic of South Africa and organizations which have demonstrated an abiding to incorporate the three High Commission Territories, interest in Africa and Africans, and Negro scholars versed namely, Basutoland, Swaziland, Bechuanaland into the in African affairs . We urge, therefore, foundations to Republic of South Africa. include Negro institutions, organizations, and scholars more adequately in their grants and endowments. We call upon the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity to enforce the non-discrimina- IV—South West Africa tion clause in contracts between our government and corporations and educational institutions operating in Taking cognizance of the dispute between the United Africa. Nations and the Republic of South Africa with respect to the latter's jurisdiction over the territory of South West Africa, the Conference urges the United States Govern- III—South Africa ment to support the United Nations in its attempt to win acceptance of its claim that South West Africa belongs The American Negro Leadership Conference con- under the trusteeship system of the United Nations. demns apartheid as a system to exploit the African, Asian Should these attempts prove unsuccessful, the United and Colored majority in South Africa by white suprema- States must resume and assert its obligations in this terri- cists and endorses the campaign of Appeal for Action tory as one of the Allied and Associated Powers to which Against Apartheid. South West Africa was surrendered at the close of hos- We deplore our government's opposition to the United tilities of World War I. Nations resolution calling for sanctions against South The American Negro Leadership Conference endorses Africa . We urge the United States to support such action Resolution 1702, XVI, adopted by the U.N. General by the United Nations against South Africa and to seek Assembly in the fall of 1961 which calls for: its implementation through effective policing of the (a) The evacuation from the territory of all military modes of entry. forces of the Republic of South Africa; (b) The release of all political prisoners without distinc- the peoples of Portuguese territories in Africa in its effort tion as to party or race; to keep these peoples in subjugation. (c) The repeal of all laws or regulations confining the We call upon the United States Government to use indigenous inhabitants in reserves and denying its influence to persuade other Western powers to urge them all freedom of movement, expression and as- Portugal to grant Angola, Mozambique, and Portuguese sociation, and of all other laws and regulations Guinea their independence. which establish and maintain the intolerable system We urge the United States Government to support a of apartheid; United Nations resolution permitting the Commission (d) Preparations for general elections to the Legislative of the United Nations to make on-the-spot inspection in Assembly, based on universal adult suffrage, to be the Portuguese territories. held as soon as possible under the supervision and control of the United Nations; (e) Advice and assistance to the Government resulting from the general elections, with a view to preparing VI—Congo the territory for full independence. (f) Coordination of the economic and social assistance We regard the restoration of the territorial unity, in- with which the Specialized Agencies will provide tegrity and unification of the Congo with Katanga as an integrated part of the country as an immediate necessity the people in order to promote their moral and material welfare; and to that end we support the use of sanctions and force, if necessary, to bring Katanga into a unified Congo . We (g) The return to the territory of indigenous inhabitants call upon our government to exert its full power to achieve without the risk of imprisonment, detention or pun- this objective. ishment of any kind because of their political activi- ties in or outside the territory ; and further urges We endorse the continued United States financial sup- the United States Government to support the imple- port of the United Nations operation in the Congo. mentation of this resolution through the United Nations and in such other ways as may be appro- priate. VII—Central African Federation

The Central African Federation embracing Northern V—Angola-Mozambique Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland was not conceived or structured and has never been maintained We support the Nationalists of Angola and Mozam- or operated in the interests of Africans . We, therefore, bique in their struggle for freedom and independence. oppose it in its present form. We urge the United States Government to support the We oppose and will refuse to support any political recommendations of the United Nations Subcommittee structure in any of these three countries which is not on Angola calling upon the Portuguese Government to founded upon universal suffrage based upon the principle enter into negotiations with African Nationalists for the of one man, one vote. purpose of implementing self-government for the Ango- We condemn the present government of Southern lese. We also call upon the United States Government Rhodesia as being both politicaly bankrupt and callous. to support similar negotiations between the Portuguese Its primary function has been to keep Africans in a de- Government and African Nationalists in Mozambique pressed and subservient political, economic and social and Portuguese Guinea. status through legal and extra-legal means, including We urge the United States Government and private discriminatory and repressive laws and the denial off ree- sources within the United States to make a humane re- dom of speech, assembly and free movement of Africans. sponse to the medical, educational, and material needs of We deplore the fact that the United States abstained Angola and Mozambique, and of the refugees from those on a resolution in the United Nations on Southern Rho- territories. desia in the 17th Assembly which, among other things, We deplore Portugal's expenditure of large sums of called for lifting of the ban against the nationalist party, money on public relations designed to misinform and ZAPU, release of political prisoners, and for discussions mislead the American public, and call upon all media of between the British Government and representatives of communications in the United States to counter these African nationalist organizations leading to a new con- activities by the Portuguese Government by making spe- stitutiongiving full voting rights to Africans. cial effort to publicize and disseminate the true facts We seek full disclosure of all facts which will detail the about Angola and Mozambique to the American public. manner and extent of American economic influence, both We urge the American Government to take immediate public and private, in this part of Africa. steps to insure that no arms, weapons or war material In light of the f ailure of the white labor movement in supplied to Portugal by the United States are used against this area to provide leadership and assistance to the

Africans in their quest for freedom, we call upon the trade Rights Day, December 10, 1962, to present the findings unions to initiate and implement a policy calculated to of this conference. bring the most meaningful benefits to Africans in these three countries, in terms of their economic, political and social status. We further urge the American trade union movement to take the leadership in assuming this respon- X sibility, and to this end we propose a meeting of repre- sentatives of this Conference and those of American We further authorize the six convenors of this confer- labor. ence to continue as an informal committee and to evalu- ate developments in the areas with which we have here concerned ourselves, and to communicate and consult VIII—Kenya with the constituent organizations on continuing activity As the independence of Kenya approaches we look to the end that we may steadily toward the attain- with hope and pride toward its future development . It is ment of the objectives embodied in these resolutions. in the interest of the Kenya people and the United States WHEREAS, The American Negro Leadership Confer- Government to have a free and stable Kenya Nation. ence on Africa, held November 23-25, 1962 at Arden Therefore we urge the United States Government to con- House, Harriman, New York, was one of the best planned sider seriously, in consultation with Kenya Nationalists, and organized conferences in our memory, and affording financial aid and assistance to help Kenya de- velop aviable political entity. WHEREAS, most of the work of this conference was We urge the British Government in the pending con- done by voluntary help under the direction of Theodore stitutionalnegotiations and elections to adopt ahands-off E, Brown and his staff: policy in regard to the internal affairs of Kenya. Brooke Aronson Linda Lynch We further urge Great Britain to continue to give aid and technical assistance to Kenya after it attains inde- Shirley Branch Carole Merritt pendence. Isobel Clark Merline White We urge our government to grant the 15 million dollar Marjorie Ellis Bernice Wilds aid requested of it by a joint mission representative of the Kenya African National Union and the Kenya African Florence Gordon Democratic Union. in putting together a great conference which will, in our opinion, release some of the pressures of our African IBC brothers.

We instruct the convenors of this body to seek a meet- THEREFORE, be it resolved that this conference go on ing with the President of the United States on Human record with a standing vote of thanks. Participants

Delegates Morsel!, John A., New York City, National Association For The Advancement of Colored People Andrews, Regina M ., New York City, National Council of Worn- Nabrit, James M., Washington, D .C ., Howard University en of the United States Oliver, William, Detroit, Michigan, United Auto Workers, AFL- Baker, Ella, Atlanta, Georgia, Student Nonviolent Coordinating CIO Committee Parker, Margery, Washington, D.C ., Soror- Baker, James K ., New York City, American Society of African ity, Inc. Culture Parris, Guichard, New York City, National Urban League Beamon, Vivian J ., Cincinnati, Ohio, The Links, Inc. Randolph, A . Philip, New York City, Brotherhood of Sleeping Brown, Aaron, New York City, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. Car Porters, AFL-CIO and Negro American Labor Council Butler, George 0 ., Washington, D .C., National Urban League Ray, Wilma, Washington, D .C ., Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Board of Trustees Reddick, Lawrence D ., Baltimore, Maryland, Southern Chris- Carter, Robert L., New York City, National Association For The tian Leadership Conference Advancement of Colored People Reynolds, Hobson, Philadelphia, Pa ., Improved Benevolent Clark, Isobel C ., New York City, National Urban League Protective Order of Elks of the World Clark, James I ., Washington, D .C., Bible Way Churches World Rhodes, E. Washington, Philadelphia, Pa ., National Newspaper Wide Publishers Association Cornwell, Henry, Lincoln University, Pa ., Lincoln University Sam, Leo, New York City, Operation-Crossroads Africa Current, Gloster, New York City, National Association For The Scantlebury, Albert R ., New York City, Improved Benevolent Advancement of Colored People Protective Order of Elks of the World Davis, John A ., New Rochelle, New York, American Society of Stevens, Hope R ., New York City, American Committee on Af- African Culture rica Dawkins, Maurice, Los Angeles, Calif ., Western Christian Lead- Thornton, John M ., Washington, D.C., United Steelworkers of ership Conference America, AFL-CIO Farmer, James, New York City, Congress Of Racial Equality Walker, Wyatt Tee, Atlanta, Georgia, Southern Christian Lead- Ferebee, Dorothy, New York City, National Council of Negro ership Conference Women and Women's Africa Committee Watts, Daniel H ., New York City, Liberation Committee for Gaston, Minnie, Birmingham, Ala ., National Council of Negro Africa Women and Women's Africa Committee Wells, Clara, New York City, National Council of Negro Women Goodlett, Carlton B ., San Francisco, Calif ., California Negro Wilkins, Roy, New York City, National Association For The Ad- Leadership Conference vancement of Colored People Hale, William H ., Langston, Oklahoma, Alpha Phi Alpha Fra- Williams, Smallwood E., Washington, D.C ., Bible Way Churches ternity, Inc. World Wide Hayes, Charles, Chicago, Illinois, United Packinghouse Work- Wilson, Boyd, Pittsburgh, Pa ., United Steelworkers of America, ers, AFL-CIO AFL-CIO Height, Dorothy, New York City, National Council of Negro Young, Whitney C ., New York City, National Urban League Women Johnson, Arnold P., New York City, Small Business Chamber Contributors of Background Papers of Commerce Davis, John A ., City College of New York Jones, David, New York City, American Committee on Africa Drake, St . Clair, Roosevelt University Jones, William B., Los Angeles, Calif ., American Society of Af- Hill, Adelaide Cromwell, Boston University rican Culture, Executive Council Houser, George, American Committee on Africa Kennedy, Joseph C ., New York City, Human Ecology Fund Kilson, Martin, Harvard University King, Martin Luther, Jr ., Atlanta, Georgia, Southern Christian Lowenstein, Allard, North Carolina State College Leadership Conference Marcum, John, Lincoln University Lanier, R . O'Hara, New York City, Phelps-Stokes Fund Mondlane, Eduardo, Syracuse University Lasley, Russell P ., Chicago, Illinois, United Packinghouse Smythe, Hugh, Brooklyn College Workers, AFL-CIO Lawson, Belford, Jr ., Washington, D .C ., Afram Continental Cor- Observers poration Bassett, Grace, New York City Logan, Rayford, Washington, D .C., Howard University Belafonte, Marguerite, New York City Martin, Louis E., Washington, D .C., National Democratic Com- Davis, Mavis Wormley, New Rochelle, N .Y. mittee Essien-Udom, E .U ., Providence, R .I. Mazique, Edward C., Washington, D .C., National Medical As- Garvin, Roy, Washington, D .C. sociation Goncaives, Carlos, National Front For Liberation of Angola Miller, William E., Pittsburgh, Pa ., Refuse And Salvage Drivers Kunzika, Emmanuel, National Front For Liberation of Angola And Helpers Union, AFL-CIO. Johnson, Willard, Cambridge, Mass. Mitchell, Clarence, Washington, D .C., National Association For Lewis, John H ., New York City The Advancement of Colored People Nkosi, Morley, Lincoln University, Pa. Montero, Frank, Bronx, New York, American Committee on Parker, Dorothy C ., Washington, D .C. Africa Weaver, Harold, New York City Morrow, E . Frederic, New York City, African-American Institute Woods, R . Delmar, New York City ~rtl7Mr ` . . ~sio~r~n~,s ~_~

THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1962.

O.S. NEGROES URGE ! MORE AFRICAN AID

Wilkins Opens Drive to Help New Independent States

By M. S. HANDLER ' 'Special to The New York Times HARRIMAN, N. Y., Nov. 23 In helping the sub-Saharan ! what he termed the repression •—A campaign to mobilize the African peoples, Mr. Wilkins political power of 19,000,000 implied the American Negroes of Negroes in Angola, Portu- American Negroes behind 'the also help themselves in their guese territory. sub-Sahara independent African own struggle. "It ill becomes the United states and other natives peoples "The not inconsiderable abili- States of America in 1962," he still living under colonial rule said, "to content itself with was started here tonight. ties we American Negro citizens wordy condemnation of such possess," Mr. Wilkns said, courses, • the while refraining The campaign was initiated fective fashion to the task of i at the opening of .a three-day from supporting a sanctions conference at Arden House of persuading our Government to resolution .in the United Nations Columbia University. It was ! "should be harnessed in an of-i and continuing normal relations designed to follow the pattern ! fective fashion to the task of with the Union of South in which Jewish opinion and re- 1 persuading our Government to Africa." sources in this country were aid the emerging peoples of. He said the situation today mobilized .to support Israel. ` Africa toward their place in the demanded "something more 'world of nations. than deploring resolutions The keynote was sounded by ,I Roy Wilkins, executive secre- "In developing this activity coupled with business-as-usual tary of the National Associa- i we should not relax our prime+ —both issuing from the con-. tion for the Advancement of efforts to achieve our proper i venient umbrella off one or an- Colored people, after a dinner place in our own country since' other aspect of the East-West attended byt 100 Negro leaders progress toward that end will cold war." from all parts of the nation. enhance our influence in behalf We do not underestimate Presiding at the opening ses- of Africa. the resourcefulness and the sion was A . Philip Randolph. "And in pressing our claim for persistence of the propaganda president of the Brotherhood of action in Africa, our emphasis of our Soviet opponents," he Sleeping Car Porters and a vice must be not upon the paternal went on, "but recent . events in president of the American Fed- and social treatment, but upon India and Cuba may suggest eration of Labor and Congress the thesis that our traditions as to new nations the degree of of Industrial Organizations. well as our national security dependance that may be given demand such forthright steps; to Soviet assurances." Irrespec- The committee that called the a free Africa will buttress a free; tive of fortuitous developments, conference included Rev . Dr. America." American aid to Africa, the Martin Luther King Jr., inte- kind and a scale to help its gration leader ; Dorothy Height, Praises Kennedy's Actions people effectively, will be the president of the National Coun- Mr. Wilkins praised the ef- test answer to the Soviets ." cil of Negro Women, and Whit- forts of the Kennedy Adminis- Mr. Wilkins said, however, ney Yung, executive director of itration to enforce the U.S. that the important improve- the National Urban League. !Supreme Court's rulings against' ments had been made in the lot Meeting Ends Sunday !segregation. He also praised they of the American Negroes in the The conference is scheduled President's Executive order ban- last 10 years. to end on Sunday with the ning racial discrimination in "It is in this setting with adoption of a resolution on the! housing constructed or financed free nations over there and with United States policy in Africa. with Federal money. increased and strategic politi- This will urge the Government But Mr, Wilkins sharply crit- cal, economic, and educational ,to abandon its "wordy policy icized the Government's policies influence over here that this and to adopt a dynamic course of Africa. He called those poll- conference. convenes," Mr. Wil- that, the resolution says, will ' dies a "wordy condemnation" kins said. help raise the international of the Union of South Africa's status of the 28 new African apartheid practices, and of states, and help liberate the remaining colonial territories. In a prepared statement to the conference Mr. Wilkins in-i dicated clearly . that Negro; lieved that the emergence of l the independent African states' leaders in the United States be-' pace at which the American had substantially quickened the Negroes have been progressing in their fight toward equal, , status. 1 i

THE NEW PORK TIMES, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1962. \U.S. Negroes Link Aid to Sub-Sahara African Nations With Rights struggle'

By M. S. HANDLER Special to The New York Times The Nero leaders rejected! Dr, Kin 's suggestions were! There seemedd to be a • diyision N. Y . Nov. 24 1, g g with the result that the best -- the suggestion that such a endorsed by the other leaders., of opinion about the extent to ! . Negro leaders agreed today' , might work at cross, Mr. Wilkins and his colleagues !,,which , , Negro students were in- .work done in this field is by that their decisionon tot link heyt 'Ppolicy white scholars. T hen eel to fin- . purposes with their own aired their personal irritation !.terested in Africa and the de- integration struggle in the;ei struggle for integration in the with what they considered to t ,tee to which they were, emo- ance African studies in Ne- g , gro institutions was heavily 'United States with the fate af United States since a conscious be an erroneous picture of thel, aissue.:illti 31tiEs . the sub-Saharan African states identification with the Africans United States power structure, .! Some felt that Negro students stressed. !would represent a new phase' might stimulate a greater and the relationship of the' had little active interest in Afri- In a background paper on of separateness as American Negroes to it, which ca and this explainedxplainod why so one aspect of this problem, St. i n the civil rights struggle ." opposed to integration . they said they frequently en-,i :few had volunteered for the Clair Drake of Roosevelt Col- 1 This view was expounded by ; countered among African dip10-1 Peace Corps and other organ- lee Chicago, contended that ~'Vhrtne Y oun~ g, executive di Organization Uncertain the reason for this one-sided !sector of the National Urban mats and polit icians rational jobs in the new coun- ta Thee Negro leaders were not They said theY feItha.t that thetries• distribution of funds was that League . !quite certain what organiza- Africans too frequently did not The Ieaders who met~ with~ re- with the exception of one found . It was endorsed by the Rev . ! tTonal forms would be needed understand the social and eco- porters toclaY disagreed with dation, Negroes were not mom Martin Luther King Jr ., Presi•' 'to carryr through the new policy . normc progress achieved by the this view. They said that even of anvany decision-decision-makingg dent of the Southern Christian Mr . Wilkins said that a erP ma- ,_.,,~ body controlled the funds 1 cases where Negroes were hers Y that Leadership Conference ; RaY ~ Went committee might emerge ignorant of the fact about Afri, nor can the American Ne$Negroes Wilkins, executive secretary of from the conference to give i .Negroes and also failed to a they nevertheless had an emo- be classified as Power~~ wielders~+ the National Association for the further thought to the problem I ! . ,understand that the po 1'rt real - - or members of the upper Advancement of Colored PeoPle,s , of devising special techniques I reaches of the ~~Am~.rica~ pew s of 19,000, ~ , . (A. Philip Randolph, president of , But he said he was confident power000, although of a minority important, was tional involvement,, the power err structure . the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car that the far-flung networks of necessarily limited in what it :of which should not be under Mr . Drake indicated that it Porters and vice president of organizations represented at would be necessary for the Ne the American Federation of La- this conference could be used as could achieve. :estimated . They attributed the relatively-, groes- boy and Congress of Industrial effective agencies through State Department a Target structure and into the decision- !Organizations; Dorothy Height, which "the Negro masses could 'small numbers of American a ! On the other hand, the Negro : . roes working in Africa to so . making bodies if real pro8teas: leaders:presidentpresident of the National wereCoun- be movedhighly." critical of g was to be made and he sug cil of Negro Women, and James Mr . Rwas confident croloa ical and economic condi th State De artmentp and oth tons in the United States . A gestedested that it would be useful Farmer, executive director of that the United States Govern- er . government agencies for w, to start by breaking the white the Congress of Racial Equality, meat would be more receptive . hito student, they~ held, could Negroes to employ competent afford to spend two or three monopoly of foundation deci at a meeting with a small group todsY to suggestions from Ne- fallingr in, the sub-Saharan , si on making groups. of reporters . r o or aniaztians because, he g years in Africa because he knew, "countries.b g i that he had status and a certain: Consensus of Leaders said, the Negro vote is much • mot a im ortant in the national They accused the department ;amount of security, ini the United! ,This seemed to reflect the ! p , of evasive action and of hiding States to which he could return,: ► icture today than it was 20 behind what they maintain is consensus of the 100 Negro lead- years ago, ;whereas the Negro student fie- era who are meetingg this week an erroneous view that the Gov- quentl felt he could not sacra• i at Columbia University'st s Arden Need Cited ernments of the new African flee several years because there!, House near here. But none had 11 Dr. King and Mr . Randolph states prefer to deal with white was nothing for him to return' 'any illusions about the difficul- ! stressed that the new phase was ambassadors rather than with to. ties they would encou nt e r partart of a worldwide struggle Negroes . They say this view has Study Centers~. Limited Iseeking to achieve two primary'.rimarv i. for freedom rather than a spe- no foundation in fact. !and interrelated forms of P.o•~! cific interest focused in Africa, Mr. Wilkins suggested that The Negro leaders said that! litica1 action. i• although African development the problem might be seen in! !one of the problems in prepar- The first is to use Negro vot- has "given the American Ne- its proper perspectiveective if the ; ling cadres for work in Africa ing strength in this country to __ new . African governments were :was the restricted number of convince the United States Gov- • ;to issue a statement o the' ;African stu y centers a Negro ernment to adopt a dynamic groes inspiration for their !effect that theyy had no cbec-iJ institutions of learning . Mostly.Y !economic and political course of': struggle here," { bons to dealing with Negro the American foundations that action that would raise the sta- Dr. King said "the real prob- finance African studies, they tus of the independent sub-: lem is to bring about economic said, direct their funds to the independence along with P'olit- ambassadors and other high principal white institutions! Saharan states and help liberate Negro officials. the remaining colonial . territo- ical independence or the Afri- cans ."' Mr. Randolph, on the other tics, the second is to instill with- hand, suggested that it was in the Negro population of the He urged a massive Marshall in Plan, the recruiting of Amer . possible that the new African United States conscious iden-, ican Negroes for official United governments preferred to deal tification with the Africans. States and unofficial American with white Americans because jobs of all categories in Africa, they seem to hold the view that and an intensive effort to culti- the American Negroes were ex- vate African diplomats and cluded from the United States their families in this country. power structure and therefore had no influence on decisions .

THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1%2. LEADING NEGROES AGREE ON GOALS

Arden House Session Asks

South Africa Sanctions

I By M. S. HANDLER HARRIMAN, N . Y., Nov. 25 —""" •--- - ~Qne hundred of this nation's candidly . admitted` in private giving them a new impetus in citizens to high level policy leading Negroes ended a three- convertcarve : allot) that they regardedl their fight for civil rights . Post," the resolutio .c went on. cily conference at Arden .House, the, organized political action of ; The conference also urged "We call for an s end to the t rimed am- Columbia University,trans- • Jewish with groups a set in the the unificationUnited of the Congo policy which has rep l et resolutions designed to iwith Katanga ;Li id United States bassadorial appointments to one ,form the struggle for civil State: is a model, but were not support for the liberation of or two persons of color. We z fights into an international certain that at the present! Angola, Mozambique and South urge recruitment of more Negro problem. stage c• f development the Negro West Africa. foreign service staff personnel The program would involve groups were ready for such a It also urged financial aid and foreign service reserve the Americancommitment Negro corr with.rnunit sub- highly integrated and sophisti •and assistance in consultation personnel." in~, a total' cat.ed organization effort. with the Kenya Nationalists to The same resolutien called on African affairs. ; The mutual relationship andldevelop a viable political corn- the American philanthropic ~~One One of the resolutions of the foundations to appoint Ameri- American Negro Leadership ; miera" son between f he nctny 4rntrnity, and urged the British Conference on Africa said that. Jewish groups in the UnitcrljGovernment .to adopt a hands can Negroes to top staff posi- the calling, or organization, States snd Israel seem to h :?;r'ejoff policy on internal affairs of tions and to include Negrol committee of the conference riveted the attention of Negrothis territory pending constitu- institutions, scholars and organ-; would seek an appointment with leader:; who decided at thi ., tionat negotiation;i. izations more ade,luately in1 1 resident Kennedy at the White ; coi:feresce to establish an it)- One resolutiea said that in1their grants and en . lowments. House for Dec . 10, Human' tiniate link between the Anieri- spite of pledge ; by the . State In the final plenary session, Rights Day, to urge upon the.; can Negro communityy and the Department to follow a policy at which the committee resolu- President economic sanctions; sub-Sat aran African peoples . of fair employment , "we find tions were amended and adopt- against the Union of Soeth Af-i They feel that such a link would that Negro citizens are still ed, ail phraseology that might rir:a. It was assumed teat the, be of help not only to the sub- excluded from trop level jobs in have involved the U : : iced States . committee would also t .~ansmit .: Sahara is in attaining interim- the area of policy making Government in any unpleasant- ~to the President all the resole; tional status or freedom, but "We urge the department to ness with its European allies 't .ions voted today that trace the! also tc, American Negroes hytmake appointments of Negro was rejected as poittically un- new line of political action for -- AmericasAmerica' s 19,000,000 Negroes. sound and of no praE tical value' Committee Membership to the purposes of the con- The committee includes the . fern) ice. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.; Mr. Wilkins on one of two, Roy Wilkins, executive secretary 'occasions indicated t cr the con- of the National Association for fe.rein e that it wa.: necessary the Advancement of Colored not to overstep th' terms of People ; Whitney Young. execu- tive director of the National Ur- refer ence set for the eonferencel ban League ; A . Philip Randolph, and unwittingly i , ivolve thei president of the Brotherhood of United States in cr: :b,irrassingj .sleeping Car Porters and vice situations . He was hinting tog president of the American Fed- the conference, in of reet, that it eration of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization ; Dor- would serve no practical pur- othy Height ; president of the pose to attempt wh . c t was not l National Council of Negro posy, hie. Women, and James Farmer, ex- . Several particip c.nts said 1 ecutive director of the Congress !that this was the first time of Racial Equality. 1 The resolutions designated. that so many Amin lean Negro this committee to determine a : leaders had met und e r one roof detailed action progra :m but to .ake important decisions I there was discussion in the -lob- that might affect all the . tries of the possibility of even- Negroes in the United States tually creating an organization similar to the American Jewish Congress to coordinate and di- rect the political action of this; country's numerous Negro or- ganizations. Some of the Negro leaders i