In a “Moratorium on Murder—Save the Youth” demonstration, more than 1,500 people marched from the State Capitol to the Morehouse College campus, protesting the killings and the failure to capture those responsible.

Announced just two weeks earlier by the Association of Christian Student Leaders and Coretta Scott King, the march and rally attracted contingents from Boston, New Orleans, Richmond, St. Louis, Washington, D.C., and Bloomington, Indiana.

Despite a local and national media blackout, delays in granting the permit, and a concerted campaign by city, state, and federal authorities to thwart any public protest, the marchers made their message clear: The slayings are racist and we won’t stop demonstrating until they are solved.  
 
March 26, 1956
DETROIT, March 16—Mrs. Rosa Parks, the 43-year-old seamstress from Montgomery, Ala. whose arrest for refusing to relinquish her seat on a bus there precipitated the Montgomery protest movement, spoke at the Ford Local 600 United Auto Workers hall today.

“Our fight is not just for Montgomery Negroes to get a seat on the bus,” she told about 300 members and guests of the Frame and Cold Header Unit of the giant Ford Rouge local. “As long as we just took segregation,” she said, “the Southern white man had the excuse that the Negroes were satisfied, but we are staying off the buses to show the whole world that we aren’t satisfied.”

Six hundred dollars, collected from the unit’s Negro and white workers in the shop during the week, was presented to Mrs. Parks for the Montgomery protesters.  
 
April 1, 1931
Authoritative reports from Prinkipo confirm in all their essentials the dispatches of recent date in the capitalist press concerning the fire which destroyed the home of comrade Trotsky in his island exile. By rare good fortune, the manuscript of the history of the Russian revolution which he is completing, an invaluable file of correspondence with Lenin, and a number of other documents were rescued from the flames.

The exact cause of the conflagration has not yet been established. Whether it was accidental or due to the dastardly efforts of a Stalinist hireling—and the whole past of Stalin’s persecution of the Opposition in general and Trotsky in particular makes the latter alternative not at all inconceivable—is not yet known.

Send all the books you can by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky written in Russian, German, French or English, or books on subjects related to their work (History, economics, sociology, etc.).  
 
 
Front page (for this issue) | Home | Text-version home