Civil Rights Mystery?

Some years ago, I walked out of a thrift store with what I thought was an old collection of poetry. I’m not sure what gave me that idea since the cover clearly says it’s some sort of resource book. But after getting home and realizing that it had nothing to do with poetry, I stuck it on the shelf and forgot about it.

Yesterday, I pulled it out and started thumbing through the pages and found an exciting little cache of Civil Rights era notes and newspaper clippings.

 

 

Of the few pieces, I’m most fascinated by the jotted list of Civil Rights personalities:

1.      Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

2.     Rev. James Lawson

3.     Mr. Bayard Rustin

4.     Mr. James Farmer

5.     Mr. Roy Wilkins

Under these names is written:

Sun. Apr. 27, ’69 “Meet the Press”

Sec’y. of Labor Schultz.

Samuel Yette of Newsweek.

In brackets is written:

{Fed. + Private Job training centers}

Up the right-hand margin is written:

Schultz’ ans: “We’re studying” & “We’re taking a close look.”

Now that I know what Schultz’ answer is, I’m dying to know what the question was and how the five men named above fit into it. I gotta get my hands on the microform. A quick Internet search revealed St. Mary’s University Library has the full transcript.