No subject

      I am indeed referring to Martin King's Nobel Peace Prize. It was =
known long before he actually received it that there was strong =
liklihood that he'd get it -- a feeling especially pronounced after the =
March on Washington at the end of August, 1963. Not very long at all =
after that I attended the SCLC convention -- where I heard a good deal. =
One dimension involved the growing concern by the Kennedys at Martin =
King's rapid emergence as an international figure. [And not long after =
JFK's death, King was named Time's 1963 Man of the Year.]

      I should add that the organization for which I was the Field =
Organizer -- the leftist Southern Conference Educational Fund -- had a =
somewhat inter-locking relationship with SCLC. A couple of examples: =
Fred Shuttleworth was a top SCLC official [National Secretary], soon to =
become SCEF president as well; C.T. Vivian, SCLC's Director of =
Affiliates, was also one of our key board members. There were others.

      Regardless of public appearances, there was a great deal of =
justifiable suspicion in civil rights organizations about the Kennedys =
-- though less in the national eschelons of NAACP than, say, in SCLC or =
SCEF or CORE or SNCC. [I use the term, "Kennedys", to include such =
people as John Doar of the Justice Department.]

      I could say more, Cornet, but this should put matters into =
satisfactory perspective.

      Yours, H


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HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq /St. Francis
Abenaki/St. Regis Mohawk
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Check out our Hunterbear website Directory =
http://hunterbear.org/directory.htm
[The site is dedicated to our one-half Bobcat, Cloudy Gray:
http://hunterbear.org/cloudy_gray.htm

For a good feel for some of the civil liberties challenges faced by an =
effective
organizer, see this cluster of four related pages:
http://hunterbear.org/a_bizarre__1979_fbi_smear_effort.htm

And see Hunter's Movement Life Interview:
http://hunterbear.org/HUNTER%20BEAR%20INTERVIEW%20CRMV.htm