TO AFRO-AMERICANS OF EVERY STRATA: LABOR, CHU CH, POLITICAL, STUDE T, CULTURAL, CIVIC, AND COMMUNITY

ATIO'NAL ANTI-IMPERIALIST CONFERENCE SOLIDARITY WITH AFRICAN LIBERATION OCTOBER 19,20,21,1973 AT DU BAR VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL 30TH AND DR. ARTIN LUTHER KING DRIVE , ILLINOIS PARTIAL LIST OF SPONSORS Rev. Ralph Abernathy - National President O'Dell Franklin - Secretary-Treasurer, SCLC ' Local #10 International Longshore and Rev. Forest Adams - Tucker Baptist Church Warehousemen's Union ~~'racuse, New York ' Hoyt Fuller - Editor, Black World Afro-American History and Cultural Society, Inc. Emily Gibson - Los Angeles Sentinel, Columnist Lerone Bennett - Senior Editor, Ebony Jesse Gray- New York State Assembly­ Black American Law Students Association man; National Tenants Organization Depauw University Chapter ' -Chicago, Illinois Black.Women and Men - Los Angeles, CaHfornia Odela Griffin - Southern Committee to Free All Political Prisoners' Carl Bloice - Editor, Peoples World Irving Hamer - Urban League; Harlem Walter Boags - Kentucky Political Prison­ Street Academy ers Committee Edward Bragg - New York Black Trade Jack Hart-International Representative Unionists of the United Electrical, Radio and Professor Dennis Brutus - Northwestern Machine Workers of America University, Sec., Infl. C mpaign Against Professor Freddye Hill-Northwestern Racism In Sports, President, South University African Non-Racial Olympic Committee Esther Jackson - Managing Editor, Professor George Bunch - Afro-American Freedomways Studies, Syracuse, New York Hulbert James - President of the Board Haywood Burns- Executive Director, Pan-African Skills Program, New York National Conference of Black Lawyers Minerva Johnican - Democratic Coalition, Margaret Burroughs- Founder, DuSable Memphis, Tennessee Museum, Chicago, Illinois Professor Leon Johnson - Trenton State Father Robert Chapman - Former Director College of Social Justice, National Council of .. .Professor Charles Junior- Rennsaeler Churches Polytechnic Institute Rev. BenChavis-Comm'ssion of Racial William Lucy- Secretary-Treasu[er, Justice, United Church- of Christ American Federation of State, County Rev. Robert Clay-St. Paul A.M.E. Church, and Municipal Workers Chicago, Illinois Rev. Wycliff Jangdarrie- Philadelohia, Matt Crawford - Ghairman, Berkeley Pennsylvania Black Caucus Malcolm X Student Government-Chicago McKinley Dabney-Third World Students Illinois ' Union, University of Kentucky Professor Bernard Magubane- University Margot Dashiell-Ben-B rkeley Black of Connecticut Caucus - Co-Chairperson, National Kavin Mercodel- President, Harvard­ Alliance Against Racist nd Political Radcliffe University Association of African and Afro-American Studies Repression Mrs. ~allye Davis- Birmingham, Alabama Ronald McCantz - Seafarers Local 777, Rev. AI Dortch - S.C.L.C., Los Angeles, Chicago, Illinois Vermont McKinney- President, Los California Angeles Chapter National Association L. A. Dunigan -International Representa­ of Black Social Workers tive of Textile Workers Union of America; Vice President, Black Labor Midwest Coalition of Black Trade Unionists Leaders, Chicago, Illino; -Executive Secretary, Curtis Ellis-Owner, EII.s' Book Stores National Alliance Against Racist and Poli~ical Repression tarl Farris- Labor Direc r. SCLC Professor Leith Mullings-Yale University, For Members Only (Black tudents Cnairperson, Continuations Committee, Organization( - North tern University 10th World Youth Festival .continued -~~~- continued'

George Murphy-Editor, Washington K. Shabazz-W. E. B. Du Bois Community Afro-American League, Memphis, Tennessee Melika A. Najiola - Progressive Black Judi Simmons- Southern Conference Youth, Memphis, Tennessee Educational Fund Dr, Lendor C. Nesbitt- Chicago, Illinois Mary Smith - Black Labor Leaders; Prexy Nesbitt- African Information Ser­ Independent Service Employees Union, vice, New York, New York Chicago, Illinois Rozell Rufus Nesbitt - , Memphis, Tennessee Juana Nkomo-Young Workers Liberation League, Martin Luther King Branch Ray Smith - Teamsters, Local #208, Los An~les, California Organization of Black Students - Univer­ sity of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Jose Stevens - Director, W. E. B. Du Bois Community Center, New York, New Yrok Nareshiamh Osei - United Defense Against Repression, Los Angeles, California Victoria Stevens- Campus Director, Young Workers Liberation League Frank Paige - Black Students Union, University of Kentucky Lola Taylor-Afro-American Exhibits, Memphis, Tennessee Lu Palmer - Editor, Black X-Press Johnnie Tillman - Executive Director, William L. Patterson-Author, We Charge National Welfare Rights Organization Genocide Edward Todd-Textile Workers Union of Gwen Patton-Woods- Former Co-ordinator American, AFL-CIO National Association of Black Students - National Chairman, Young Janis Payne- Black Panther Party, Workers Liberation League Memphis, Tennessee Peoples Action Union- Los Angeles, Calif. Rev. Cecil Williams-Glide Memorial Church - San Francisco, California Peoples Voters League - Shrevesport, Rev. Hosea Williams- President, Atlanta Louisiana Branch, SCLC John Pittman-Editor, Daily World Agnes Willis - President, National Afro­ Leo Rabouine - Black Caucus; Chairman, American Labor Council, New York, Citywide Brewery Workers, New York, New York New York Clarence Willis-Memphis Committee to Scottie Ray-African American Solidarity End Repression and Free All Political Solidarity Committee, Chicago, Illinois Prisoners Professor Harold Rogers- Editor, African Sta-n Willis- University of Chicago Agenda -Organization of Black Students Carlos Russell- Dean of the School of Henry Winston - National Chairman, Contemporary Studies, Brooklyn, Communist Party, U.S.A. New York John Woodford - Reporter, Ch icago Bill Scott-Committeeman; Local #664 Sun Times United Auto Workers, Tarrytown, New York ·Organizations and aftiliations Iisted for identification only. ADVANCE REGISTRATI FO

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This form MUST be mailed no later than mid­ night Friday, October 7, 1973 to the NA­ TIONAL ANTI-IMPERIALIST CONFERENCE IN SOLIDARITY WITH AFRICAN LI TION, 811 West 63rd Street, Rooms 213-215, Chicago, Illinois 60621. Our telephon m­ ber is (312) 994-668'2.