The Nation : SCLC Chief Raps Reagan
The head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference charged in Atlanta that President Reagan has used a “wall of presidential immunity to deride and berate” black civil rights leaders but has failed to meet with them “for an honest exchange of views.” The Rev. Joseph Lowery, the black president of the civil rights organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., called on Reagan to meet with blacks for “an honest exchange of views” after the President’s comments Saturday that suggested some black leaders are seeking to create racial disunity.
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