With a New Weapon

Before the civil rights bill passed through the last stretch of the Senate foundry last week, the South's most famous Negro leader was drawing up plans for a Southwide campaign to make prompt use of the new weapon. Alabama's the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., hero of the history-making Montgomery boycott against Jim Crow buses, announced that his Southern Christian Leadership Conference (membership: 100-odd Negro leaders, mostly clergymen, in eleven states) is going to undertake a long-range drive to get Negro names on Dixie registration rolls by:

P:"Arousing masses of Negroes to realize that in a democracy their chances of improvement rest on their ability to vote."

P:Setting up "voting clinics" in Southern cities to tell Negroes about "the techniques of voting and registration."

P:Using "all facilities of the law," notably appeals to the Justice Department under the brand-new civil rights measure, to prevent interference with Negro registration and voting.

In its get-out-the-Negro-vote drive, said President King, the S.C.L.C. will seek help from all Negro churches in the South, try to raise $200,000 the first year from churches, labor unions, foundations, civic organizations. First step ahead: a S.C.L.C. meeting in mid-September to set up the drive's central headquarters in Atlanta.

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