National leaders of the Jewish, Negro and white Christian communities offered a program today to end what they termed “escalating bigotry” in New York City and the nation. The program was contained in a statement released jointly by Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and Arthur J. Goldberg, American Jewish Committee President. Its 20 signatories represented the national leadership of religious, civil rights and defense organizations.
The program called on “every city agency, including boards of education, (to) clearly designate the penalties faced by their employees who foment racial and religious bigotry.” It also urged “national, state and local governments, as well as private foundations, to terminate funds or other grants-in-aid to any organization or individual proved to be engaging in the promulgation of racial or religious bigotry.”
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