Fundraising Advertisement Placed in the New York Times on March 29, 1960 by the Committee to Defend Martin Luther King and the Struggle for Freedom in the South
312 W. 125th St., New York, New York

Committee Leadership: A. Philip Randolph, Dr. Gardner C. Taylor, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Nat King Cole, Bayard Rustin, Reverend George B. Ford, Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, Dr. Thomas Kilgore, Jr., Rabbi Edward E. Klein, Morris Iushewitz, Cleveland Robinson

Partial List of Signatures on New York Times Advertisement

Your Help is Urgently Needed . . . NOW!!

Stella Adler
Harry Belafonte
Marlon Brando
Mrs. Ralph Bunche
Diahann Carroll
Nat King Cole
Cheryl Crawford
Dorothy Dandridge
Ossie Davis
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Ruby Dee
Lorraine Hansbury
Nat Hentoff
Van Heflin
Langston Hughes
Mahalia Jackson
Eartha Kitt
Hope Lange
John Lewis
Viveca Lindfors
Don Murray
Sidney Poitier
A. Philip Randolph
John Raitt       
Elmer Rice
Jackie Robinson
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Bayard Rustin
Robert Ryan
Maureen Stapleton
Hope Stevens
George Tabori
Norman Thomas
Kenneth Tynan
Shelley Winters

Partial List of Members of the Clergy who Signed the Ad

We in the South who are struggling daily for dignity and freedom warmly endorse this appeal

Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy
(Montgomery, Ala.)
Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth
(Birmingham, Ala.)
Rev. Kelley Miller Smith
(Nashville, Tenn.)
Rev. C.K. Steele
(Tallahassee, Fla.)
Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr.
(Atlanta, Ga.)