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you want to hold it a sec while I look. The people who called this meeting, the two names that were used were: A. Phillip Randolph who started as a Pullman porter and became the head of their union, and myself. And the people who were called to be the executive committee of the Urban Coalition which met the day before and tried to write out a platform as to what our goals and ambitions were included Randolph, David Rockefeller, Roy Wilkins, Walter Reuther, Whitney Young-

I think of the Urban League.

Of the Urban League, right, right. Then Mayor Cavanaugh of Detroit which had been badly damaged, Bishop Hines. Our executive committee wrote a platform calling on the leadership to agree to a program--What, in effect we said was that the problem was far too large to be handled by any one sector of the country, and that we all had to get together to do it. And we called upon the various sectors to do various things; to take various actions. And when the coalition met we read this platform to these twelve hundred people who were sitting there in the hotel in Washington on August, what, twenty-fifth. And then this platform was discussed, amended, voted, passed and it made quite a splash. In fact, it made the front pages of the Times and the Washington Post and everybody was talking about it.