James Farmer, former executive director of the Council on Racial Equality, refused to lecture tonight in a club charged with discriminating against Jews and Negroes.
The Negro civil rights leader, now Professor of Social Welfare at Lincoln University, was scheduled to speak to the University Club of Lancaster at Meadia Heights Country Club here. When informed by the ADL that the country club was biased, a charge he said he checked and found to be true, he refused to speak there. His lecture was transferred to the Franklin and Marshall College here.
The Negro leader said that he had asked many artists not to speak at places which bar Jews and Negroes. At his request, an Israeli pianist recently cancelled a concert in Mississippi because the hall “discriminated,” he said.
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