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Poster Problems

I should like to know why the
posters calling for help in voter
registration specify that Kennedy
volunteers are encouraged. The
policy of the NAACP (of which I
am a member) has always been
that the organization does not in
any way take a partisan stand
during an election campaign. Thus
in the 1966 Alabama gubernatorial
race, the NAACP refused to endorse
or work with Carol Robinson,
an independent liberal,
against Lurleen Wallace and her
equally racist Republican opponent,
James Martin. Given this
tradition—a sound one, I believe—
there is no justification for the
association of the local NAACP
and the Kennedy forces which
seems to be upcoming. The local
McCarthy organization should
register a strong complaint with
the national headquarters of the
NAACP—as I intend to do.