Rocm 56-423

april9,1968

The Boaton Globe
Wla.T.@4urrirrseyEauleward
Borton,Nassachusetts

To the Editor:

At first sight;, thm demanda mrrp strike even liberal vhik people
a3 excessive f&l Vtopian.  Irt, aureful thmtgbt bars led s)b to see
their % -s , cag%aey , ax& urg%ncy.  Two reasons for this mast
bc UrldentQod.

First, %omtiw pmgreesive stops have p-wed futile in effecting
the fulsillment of black Anericans, emd radical stepr me the only
remainirq hape ferr aue~e~+s without going th.rau@ an cdeal by fire.

Becoad, Aaericaa socibty murst make ut, BOW, in institutional autonomy
and ec-ic eontributian, a part of t%=kmtitutiaal an% ecancmic
pqmrty which it has t&en for centuries from ita black sector.
This is no cImxity, no bemmolent coneessi~n: it must be seen as a
start of restitutiQn.

Hotrt that the $1OO,OW,OOO rsquaated by the Unita? Front for Rexbury
is what the WniteU States rapend each d8.y in Vietnam.

Ginc%rsly $Oum ,

selh

8. I?. Luria
(Secipick Bofearaor of Mology)