MTP - Roy Wilkins and Martin Luther King
Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the NAACP, and Martin Luther King, were on Meet the Press back in 1963. They were on just before the March on Washington. The format of Meet the Press was a little different. There were 3 reporters that were firing questions at the guests. One of the reporters was terribly worried about violence which in looking through a 40 year retrospectoscope, looks to be awfully racist. What he appears to be saying is that Blacks can’t assemble in large numbers without tearing stuff up. Hell, we know that Whites have trouble assembling in large numbers without tearing things up (Woodstock II).
Interestingly, it appears that Wilkins is the more “important” guest. King becomes the great MLK, after his March on Washington, after his “I have a Dream” speech.
