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.NAACP LEADER 1-1-1-1-1-1-1
SOTTD ON FILM COMING
Clarence Laws, regional secretary of the N-A-A-C-P,
says M there will be demonstrations in Dallas
this weekend in sympathy with the plight of Negro
civil rights workers in Selma, Alabama. Laws,
leaving Dallas for his organization's regional
conference in Houston, says he intends to ask the
conference for sympathy demonstrations throughout
the five-state Southwest area. 6 Laws says that
early today he sent out 56 telegrams to c tie
t{ughout the country seeking demonstrations The
Dallas demonstrations, he says, would be held either
Saturday or Sunday.
SOUND ON FILM FOR ABOUT 36 SECONDS
LONG, AIRPLANE
Laws says the demonstrations may include a march
to the Dallas city hall, He says he doesn't expectany trouble during the demonstrations because,
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: NAACP leader], script, March 9, 1965; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc976741/m1/1/?rotate=90: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.