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1959 Petition Campaign and - YOUTH FOR INTEGRATED SCHOOLS

312 WEST 125th STREET * 27, NEW YORK * MOnument 6-9700 Pebruj-y 13, 1959

Chairmen Dear Student Leader,

MRS. We are writing to toll you about the Youth March for Integrated Schools and to aok that you take st ps to make it known to your MRS. RALPH J. BUNCHE student body and to secure the fullest p -sible participation from REV. EDWIN T. DAHLBERG your school. REV. HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK Last October 25th, 10,000 y ung people assembled in REV. MARTIN LUTHER , JR. Washington, D.C. to make a solemn affirmation of their support for equal FATHER JOHN LAFARGE, S.J. education and for the integration of the schools. Many of these CLARENCE PICKETT young people were students. Most of them came from schools and RABBI JOACHIM PRINZ colleges on the eaGtSrn seaboard. 1 egro and white were present in A. PHILIP RANDOLPH almost equal numbers. On this day, at a mass gathering at the Lincoln Memorial, the young people pledged to return to Washington, and to invite young people from across the nation to come with them. They promised also to circulate on a nation-wide scale a petition urging the CHARLES S. ZIMMERMAN Government to move forvard in the task of speedy integration of the schools.

(Additional committees in formation) The time to launch this petition campaign and toprepare for the 1959 Youth March in her. Enclosed you will find a copy of the Call to the 1959 Youth Marh, and a copy of the Petition which we Treasurers are urging young people wherever they may be to sign and circulate. MORRIS IUSHEWITZ We ure you to give immdiate thu hht to the publicizing of this BENJAMIN F. MCLAURIN movement on your campus, and to curingg full student participation. DR. C. B. POWELL Copies of the Call and the Petition are available from the Youth March office--ap many as you Our campaign begins at Coordinators need. a time of deepening educational crisis in sur country. Our moral affir- nation for the democratic ideal of equality and in support. of the HERBERT L. WRIGHT Supreme Court deciolion of May 17, 1954 is needed--now .

We wish you Godspeed in mounting a successful-campaign that will enable American youth to speak out on the greatest moral issue of our time; that will enable us to make our own personal contribution to the advancement of brotherhood and the realization of the Christian purpose.

Sincerely,

ENDIN T. DAHIERG ---3

REV. EPIrATEl'

CLARENE PICKETT

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