VIEWS OF SIDNEY LENS ON DOMESTIC RACIAL SITUATION AND THE NEW POLITICS CONVENTION

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• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06485489
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• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: September 27, 2017
• Case Number: F-2012-02055
• Publication Date: October 5, 1967

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:.';!..lney Lens on liatu.z1.t-.Lon
the rolities Con-ff,..11.-lon. � �
1. flidue.y Lea. vase reJ,y ne..-13.12D.113t1c about the :txri.:.sent
..:1.tuation in the United States. Tie VAleved that the o,inj�oiaJ.s.triZe
� La bringing al:oat thA of the 1.1.beral COnCen311-73, 're veal 'lag
.11�1 hypoc....rif.iy" of f:he. kneriCz41. potrstructn.ro... H -Isrindersd
erai rel'orn:3 to 11...,:aa o1'.' a violc:nt domestic
of black 1-Atants fAlld e ral3 f."21d radicad C.Vea
poosibla. lie believe&l that como rot. of vwt conspiracy on the 'right might
hr z11-eady .ur...detr.../tiy to destroyPraericn aiainocracy. -
.2. state or de.,pr.ss-j.on.r..v.14.1.:;nt in part be ckplained b.y ths ailure
Or tiVi lrev Politics Conytntion,/ with IraS (7,realay .
-;:n La- that. UR,BLck C;aucus/ond the CIVOAlbad irrecited. the Convent:don,
y)t-'the Cuniats had failed .to. 631; thtl Convention' 3 ouppp.rt for a Kin-pock
ty.yme other. third ticket in the - 1`.:253- pre.sidential elections,. Ithich the
Cringunists werevyc;er to obta..in.
. 3.: � nala that r,...21.a.tive rv.ia1 pc..a,ce had ben i.'-z�in-1-4:4.5.ned in Chicati,o
u.Ing tit 1er by 7.......4:11rilye co..111,13 of rorty riv-ing into the.- --pocketaol' on
1.)1a-ck natioriint 3tca6e-se.:3�. yot.11-,11 cang..1(...vtders and cc....rtain liticiana.
11.1.3 ton to-17.efo Chimgo "cool"� had 1Y-7:en succesful� but hj1 elso
:ici1:11-1c11 1;.'inici=3/11 oralri,,..�zy. black people. who re beginnlng to
acierstancl at Thtt n. !..znd to feel v3rused hr f..neh treatzlent. Lens
lIwtthat condition:3 1;(1re .2.1.1C11 that Black people. .in Chica.o &small not fail
protent �,!::15.1.Lt::33112,1/ In the future, and porhAps tot only arcing hot weat.her. .
�b14ck r.--.or....wunity, henainta.inf..� despite its -
divisions. !.(...cording to Lens., riot one iThro dniper was causht or onouncd
the surfgaer.
".ryin said he 11,-1.11 bet.,..n ;Ibis to -;.'.alntain. fairly r,00d Contact-s vith -
1.-;.--ny grOe $.4 in the i.2;he-tto;,.s crid with black intellE.Ictlia,13, ruza, he seerte.d to -
IL:Ave a f airly self -confident idea of ,..;bat was tping on within the black � �
C. >sCifiltIn
. 5. 1 r.-.tintained that 17hite a....adical..1 in General, lur.kwer-�, had. virtually .
� 1.10 iniluence inside the chettoes and that the Daly 1-2a.c.blue was .1r.ore Juential
the the CITSA or the. CeD C ifai 3 t rzeri rarty./ lb
3die...4 nothing aLout ii.A.24'Y influence, 1 y, but 1-3aid that the cc.2ntor of black
11:At Iontaiut activity see.--vsd s.lt present in the isb Garfield area..
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