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Politics, Demonstrations Both Vital To Civil Rights Success, King Says

Martin Luther King, who brought the tactics of non- direct action into the civil rights movement, last declared that Negroes must turn to political action, as demonstrations, in the fight for racial justice.

He called for a massive voter-registration drive through- the South in order to double the number of Negroes registered.

At a press conference earlier in the day, he announced the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which he would begin an intensive registration drive in Selma, next week, later broadening it into a state-wide . He said the effort will culminate in a "freedom election will be used to challenge the legality of the Alabama .

King crowned a whirlwind one-day trip to Boston yesterday with a speech to an overflow crowd of 1730 admirers in Rindge Tech auditorium. Earlier in the day he was from Logan Airport to preach a sermon in Memorial . That was followed by a lunch given by the Rev. P. Price, Preacher to the University, and later a sponsored by the Young Democrats.

Everywhere well-wishers mobbed King, who recently from Stockholm, Sweden, where he was awarded the Peace Prize. He received two standing ovations at the Tech speech, which--despite the extra 200 seats on stage--had been sold out for a week.

Every seat in Mem Church was filled half an hour before scheduled to begin, and late-comers heard his sermon into Sanders Theater.

He was so late in ariving at the church with the Rev. who met him at the airport, that President Pusey led waiting congregation through the hymns and reading before King .

Mem Church it was King the who cautioned that Negroes must hate with love. "We must realize the philosophy of an eye for an eye results in everyone being blind," he .

at Rindge Tech it was King the realist who hammered home the that Negroes must win and use to win their rights.

singled out the need for additional to supplement the 1964 civil act. Criticizing the act's provisions registration, he suggested the of federal registrars to end against Negro voting .

Ban Discrimination

addition, he declared that every should have an open occupancy law a Fair Employment Practices . King also demanded legislation with de facto segregation in public schools.

praised the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party as "one of the most developments in the civil rights adding "if we had worked , we could have seated the three women who challenged the Mississippi congressmen."

King said that he regretted the NAACP had decided to pull out the civil rights coalition which the Mississippi Freedom . He added that SCLC would part of COFO, but indicated he favor restructuring the organiza-

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