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~wA. ) J. L J u J. 4) A.D1Jlaal.I OR O~SD~IA W Rev. albert D. Claeire, arzotunccci today that the F dration for.L~ Do te ination has voted to
W1.tZhcfrnaw ipoposa1 fr on the Now Detkoit G o itte o. It -i:s severing a2ll rolations with the o vw Dtroit Corittoe appointed by, Govrnor Romoey and ilayor
Cavana j h~ rcpt. Clago. th Gor~oal C~airnaof t1e o drutio, sa~i, 7T a ow Dtroit4 Comit toe can treep its 'striag attachecPs ooy The Fedration'es j or o
jecctyvo is to preoneto self. do terina tionz for bDiaok pooplo through a dynaiic progran to s treornth ea black rgniza tionzs and politial~ social. and
oconor-do institutions~r' oTat)black Lpeople rust nmake t ho docisioils a.*" foacting their lives just Jliko m-'ot hito people can do is a mesageo that
everyono should have rea, including the Now Dtroit Co.-ztte. Mrz. Hudson arrnounced in his p ress confe ren;ce on January 4sevral condi,;tions to tho' Nov
Detroit es grant.ing; of m:oney to two or ganzat:Lons. We cannot speak f of theo othor organization. The Fedcr ations howovor. f..rds the condition0;S;a00
tv0 no oefforto bo[&un by the Feder-ation Ohall continue in a ==rnor to insurc -the integri ty, dignity and pride of the black po~le of Detroit. "The Fe der
ation l erd~ with -refuses theoc0100)000) orx'sotoon cents per black person' in Detroit* which with the best of intonsions would be ins 2 f:L cat;,;ut:as
offeprod, would set au " ~cmaple natioenwide, mortGaginC the freedom of balack people and playing havoc wi.th thei.r aolf-roopoct, The following telegrami was
seont by' Rovo::end Albert D. Cleo1, Jr q Chairm -n,?odoration of' Sol. Dotorination, to Xr. Joseph "L Hudson, Jr., Chairmanf of tho NCU Dv troit Colnitteo:,
'The oozat ion fr ol Dotor. ination has voted to WithY.dr~aw Lit proposal from the Now rDtroi t Cornit toc~ It i oosvring all relationo waihthhe.
1c.-IDtitCommi'.tteeo:.s stated inl the c6ni ttoo meting, jthe Fedration refuses to accept 4ouoy with strings attaohed, t lien ccforward, there will 'be no
nilitant nmmbrs on the Now Dotr oit Com ittee0 Lorenze Frooaan and Nor vollo x'rring;ton, merbors of the Fodration have reosigned from the Now Dtroit Committo.
tlvin Harri on has oved out of the city peow. ranon tly. i r t r a r i i s
~. 535 G-rand> River anuary 7, 1968 FOR IM JEDIKTE RELEASE NEWS RElEAS FEDERATION FOR SELF- DETERMINATION De trpit, Michigan The Rev. Albert B.
Cleage, Jr. Chairman of the Poderat ion for SelfDeteriOination, a union of activists and mass based organizations in Detroit 's black community., which was
io.nd to facilitate the red.evrlopment of Detroit, and loyd MC ick, National Chairman of LSQ Oress Co On Racial Equaulwtv said i r press conference in
Detroit hti the first local effer r c'rtring owt a new trend toward forming a laoor-industry-governmert coa iion Lad filed for the same reasons s
It revious efforts have rn mooscede. Whites have tried to absorb t"'acic paternalisti ly and tren on ter a s by whites. Wp have lost all fith in this
willinsness o,th rban coalition to cope with urban probems and deal with indigenos rsde0ts as equals. The1 Voy. Cleage, a prominent nDtwili11\ i:.
spkresman for black,,peop in Detroit, had announced two days oUe that the Federation for SelfDetermination had resuse. an o e iOOOOr oOf,000 together
with assistance in raasing another $137,OOO offered by the NHw Detroit Committee. The Federation regarded the money from te Now Detroit Committee as having
soo many strings attached and in conflict with its goal of self-;:<Lnrmination. The New Detroit Committee is a grcup of thirty prominent individuals from the
Metropolitan Detroit wh..itc cover atrtcture including chief aumc ondustry executives,.ut it y mn.rnates and other persons. oi white plwe. r The committee has
nine Sls.I Of the nine, the militant blacks will henceforth no longer serve on- tis committee which appears,o regard the black community as itse'rnaL colony.
Both Rev. Cleage and Chairman Nissick agre nA t coaLitions There blacks enter as supplicants befo-re colossal wita p owr cwnnot succeed. The only avenue for
avoiding failure is through.a ranfer of power to black people. * toy annis, Had of a chapter of New 'ork's C.O.R.E. and director of an economic rogram in the
black o7mnmy there said, "Only when black people have strength based upon pow'r can there be a meaningful coi alition. The dilution of power in te black
community either through continued opre sion or ratwrmti m mua car to an end. " Rev. Cleage said that the struggle fo ]s -EC t rmin~ation will go on without
white money involving strings.. The two black members of the re DetroiU Committee, kenny Freeman and Norvel Harrington said that Ene Deroi ta a. "study in
failure" and that the aeverence of relationhapS I the only alternative for black men with integrity when tha I nt re ononip ~c degradingly paternali tic. 4