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Jim Gibson
February 9, 1972
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hearing in a number of influential newspapers around the U.S.

(4) set up an onsite press office to issue credentials, provide
telephones, typewriters, hold press conferences, decide what will
be open to press and what won't.

(5) arrange with all speakers, workshop leaders, etcetera for advance
texts of all remarks made for public consumption.

(6) work with whatever continuations committee is - or will be -
established to insure that unlike other gatherings of this nature,
committee reports, recommendations and resolutions can be printed
and distributed to participants before the 1976 elections are upon
us.

(7) be able to soothe ruffled feelings of newsmen whose "Blackness"
or commitments is challenged by a delegate from Des Moines, etcetera.

Can this be done? I am up to my neck in being General Chairman of the
YMCA campaign through the first week in March; the General Assembly;
and trying to get myself, my brother, and Carolyn Long Banks elected
delegates to the Democratic National Convention.

As for keynoters, let me again recommend Zelma Wyche, the Tallulah,
Louisiana town marshal.

Other possibilities might include:

Vincent Harding, Institute of the Black World, Atlanta
Bobby Hill, Georgia State Representative, Savannah, Georgia
John Lewis, Voter Education Project director, Atlanta

Bobby hasn't had much exposure outside Georgia, is a dynamic speaker
and would do very well. Where Zelma is earthy, Bobby is erudite, but
both are rousers.

Vicent is not a rouser, and might bring much of what Lerone Bennett

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