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This decorated demonstrator was one of about 350 people who braved scattered showers in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday to march in protest of the Vietnam war. The march and a Parade Park rally was intended to emphasize the cost of the war.
Negro commissioner named Wichita mayor
A. Price Woodard, the first Negro Wichita city commissioner, was named mayor of that city Monday.
The largest city in Kansas, with a population of 285,000, Wichita has suffered several outbursts of racial violence in recent years.
Woodard, 51, was elected to the city commission in April, 1967, and will be starting his last year in office.
The mayor is selected each year in April by the five fellow commissioners who are elected at large. He chairs commission meetings, but otherwise the job is largely ceremonial, with the daily operation in the hands of a city manager.
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An attorney and native Wichitan, Woodard has been accused by some Negro leaders of not carrying the torch for the black community, in which Woodard and his family reside.
Woodard said during his election campaign that he would work for a fair housing ordinance.
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Lee Weiner of the Chicago Seven was the principal speaker at the Parade Park rally. He spoke on revolution and his experiences in Chicago.
Vietnam prompts KC march
Familiar choruses of "Hell no, we won't go," and "Peace Now!" were chanted along the parade route. At Parade Park the sun came out for a while and the crowd swelled to about 500.
KANSAS CITY — A group of about 350 protesters proved themselves to be more than fair-weather demonstrators Wednesday by ignoring scattered showers while marching through downtown Kansas City, Mo., in protest of the Vietnam war.
Flanked by policemen and student mobilization marshals, the group marched three-a-breast from Union Station, through downtown Kansas City and past the Federal and State Buildings to Parade Park.
Weiner said, "I am not the revolution; you are, and if you don't know it, you have to learn it."
There were several other
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speakers at the rally, including Pete O'Neil, chairman of the Kansas City Black Panther's and representatives from the Welfare Rights Organization, Women's Liberation Front and Chicano, a brown power group.
The main thrust of the demonstration was intended to emphasize the cost of the war, said Lewis Wolfe, director of the Lawrence Peace Center. At times, however, speakers at the rally also emphasized racial discrimination and other current issues.
The march and rally were organized by the Student Mobilization Committee (SMC) as the highlight of the Kansas-Missouri area activities in connection with National Anti-War week.
SMC leaders expressed disappointment with the small number of people who joined in the demonstration.
At KU a handful of students, some from South Junior High School, gathered in front of Fraser Hall at 11:30 a.m. to march to O-Zone where cars were waiting to take them to Kansas City for the march and rally there.
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