from Militant 2/9/63
A call was issued in Washington on August 20th for the formation of 1 CLA on-wide, 2ll—Negro Freedom Now Party which would run its first cancidates-in tie 1964 elections, Udeing tre March on Wasiington as a launching ped for the new party, its organisers issued a stirring Declaration of Washington proclaiming the movement's aims and possibilities... s.mitaneously there was a distribution of leaflets calling for support in formation of the Freedom Now Party to the huge throngs of civil-rights demonstrators pouring into the capital.
Word that a call for a Negro party would be issued at the March on Washington leaked out a few days beforo and caused considerable stir, On Aug. 24 the New York Times carried a front-page story that such a call was going to be distributed to the marchers in Washington and added that on the samo day “leaflets will also be distribted in Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, San Francisco, Los Angoles, New York, Seattle and other cities with large Negro populations." The Times also reported that a tentative national commit— tee under the acting chairmanship of civil-rights attorney Conrad Lymm, had opened an office at 61 Bast 125 St., in the heart of New York's Harlen,
eesin addition to the Declaration of Vashington, a brochure has been roleased entitled "A Call For a Freedom Now Party," It asks, “iwhat sense does it make to go on supporting the party of Eugene (Bull) Connor? Bull Connor is still Kemnedy's Domocratic National Committeaman from Alabama. Should Southern Negroes register to vote - at the rick of death - when the only ‘choice’ on the ballot is a James 0, Zastland or a George C. Wallace? Then have Republicans or Democrats over used long existing Federal laws to protect us from daily, coast-to-coast police brutality?
“Our African brothers have shown us how to win freedom. Their principal technique: All=black political action. This is self-reliance not 'racisn,' The times are with, us," the brochure seys. "A Freedom Now Party will unite us for tho firdat We will be the pormanent party of change and challenge, We will take the issues to the streets,"
lynn said the idea for an all—Negro party developed from a suggostion ade by William Worthy, well-known Negro correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American at a June 1 street rally in Harlem,