The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
Agenda for the Leadership Conference Executive Committee MeetingArnold Aronson sends the agenda for an upcoming meeting for the Executive Committee of the Leadership Conference. Important topics of discussion include the Civil Rights Act of 1967 and the Freedom Budget. |
Letter from Arnold Aronson to Cooperating OrganizationsArnold Aronson writes cooperating organizations to ensure that following the March on Washington, the government delivers on the stipulations of the Civil Rights Bill. |
Letter from Marvin Caplan of Leadership Conference on Civil RightsIn a letter to the heads of various organizations, Marvin Caplan encloses information regarding the Crime Control Bill that was sent to all members of the State Judiciary Committee. The enclosure is entitled "A New Threat to School Desegregation." |
Minutes for the Leadership Conference on Civil RightsThe minutes for this meeting include the Civil Rights act of 1967, the "Freedom Budget," and discrimination in military off-post housing. |
Notice from Leadership Conference on Civil RightsHere is a letter to stimulate local civil rights organizations to undertake visits to House and Senate members during Easter Recess. The visits were to push for legislative goals such as "at least a million jobs for the hardcore unemployed, decent low cost housing for all and repeal of punitive welfare restrictions." The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights issued this notice, in the days following Dr. King's assassination. |
Telegram from Arnold Aronson to MLKArnold Aronson requests Dr. King's opinion regarding the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights endorsing the anti-poverty bill. |