Postponed one day by Hurricane Gracie, SCLC convened its fall meeting on 30 September at First Calvary Baptist Church in Columbia. The executive committee approved each of these eight recommendations from King but referred the proposal to hire a new executive director to the administrative committee.
The typed program for SCLC’s annual conference featured these comments.
In the second part of King’s diary, published on 23 August in Jet magazine, he writes about a visit from his family, particularly his three children, whom he has not seen in several weeks. The visit, King says, “certainly gave me a lift.”1 Throughout the week, he continues to attend court proceedings on the July injunction against demonstrations in Albany.
King informs U.S. attorney general William Rogers of voting rights violations in Lawrenceville, Georgia. In a 21 June 1960 reply, acting assistant attorney general of the Civil Rights Division Joseph M. F. Ryan thanked King and assured him that the matter "is being given careful attention."
Attorney-General William Rogers
Department of Justice
Washington, D.C.
Dear Attorney-General Rogers:
In the following form letter King requests money to expand SCLC's program and to cover legal fees for student protesters and the ministers who had been charged with libel by Alabama officials.1 King asks that potential donors "think of a few of our heroic board members such as Daisy Bates, Fred Shuttlesworth, C. K. Steele, Ralph D.
L. B.
King reports on his first meeting with Democratic presidential hopeful John F. Kennedy on 23 June at the senator's New York apartment.1 King describes the encounter as "fruitful and rewarding" and expresses confidence that Kennedy would "do the right thing" on civil rights.
In this typescript of an address to the oldest and largest federation of African American lawyers, King reemphasizes the importance of nonviolence and denounces the “hate groups arising in our midst” that advocate “a doctrine of black supremacy.” He reminds his audience that “we must not try to leap from a position of disadvantage to one of advantage, thus subverting justice.”1 King’s remarks may have been prompted by the July 1959 television broadcast of “The Hate That Hate Produced,” which dr
After attending the National Baptist Convention in San Francisco and speaking in Los Angeles, King flew to Hawaii for several engagements and a brief vacation.1 Arriving just three weeks after Hawaii became the fiftieth state, he addresses the legislature at the state capitol, the Iolani Palace.2 King thanks the Hawaiians for offer-ing the nation “a noble example” of progress “in the area of racial harmony and racial justice.”
Shortly before resigning as executive director, Baker recommends that Bob Moses be sent to assist leaders of SCLC's Louisiana affiliate, the United Christian Movement.1 Moses, a high school math teacher, had come to know Baker while volunteering at SCLC's Atlanta headquarters during the summer; he had previously worked with Bayard Rustin in New York on behalf of SCLC.2 Later that summer, Moses traveled to Louisiana, Mississippi
