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Till Memo - 2
Districts order as quickly as possible.
2--Develop the Movement to Force the Eisenhower
Administration to Intervene: This requires hundreds of
thousands of postcards, telegrams, letters, petititions and
resolutions to the President and Attorney General Brownell
from individuals and organizations. This means trade union
bodies in the first place at all levels, labor leaders, and
rank and file members; it means, likewise, involving, at
all levels, church and religious institutions, the major
Jewish organizations, Democratic Party organizations; the youth
movement; cultural groups; as well as the major organizations
of the Negro people. In addition, full support should be
given to delegations now being organized to visit Washington.
Many leading Negro people and their organizations are working
on such delegations. In addition to this, the Party and the
Left should stimulate in every way possible the organization
of such delegations. Particularly is this desirable from
nearby points in the East.
An important aspect of this movement is to petition
City Councils in all parts of the country to urge Brownell
to act. There is no doubt whatever but that many City Councils
will act if the necessary efforts are made, and if the broadest
possible approach is developed. Likewise, the movement to
force action from the Department of Justice will grow still
further, if leading personalities in Negro life, from the
labor movement, etc., were to purchase newspaper space in the
metropolitan and Negro press to address open letters to the
Attorney General and the President. In addition hundreds and
thousands of memorial meetings are required. Already, Chicago,
Cleveland, Harlem, Baltimore, and Detroit have witnessed large
protest rallies involving tens of thousands. But these meetings
must be seen as only the beginning. They must spread, until
all ma jor cities are included, as well as smaller towns and
communities throughout the country. Likewise, organizations
of all kinds should take up the Till murder in one or another
manner a small memorial meeting; a brief discussion on an
action program, or a resolution, etc.
3 --Project this struggle into the center of the preparation
for the convening of Congress in January and of the 1956 elections,
as well as for a special session of Congress: Among other
things this requires a movement to challenge the right of
Eastland to sit in the next session of Congress, as well as
D.
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