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L: Yes sir.

P: To who, to you or to the NAACP?

L: To Mr. Saunders and I, we were representatives of the NAACP.

P: Were you the local head of the NAACP at this time?

L: Of the state.

P: So you were the head of the state NAACP, and this was in 1960-61.

L: Right.

P: How did you become the state head of the NAACP?

L: I do not know. I guess that is a result of being so outspoken.

P: During this time of the sit-ins, were the newspapers supportive in their editorials?

L: I do not really recall now and I will have to go to the morgue at Tampa Tribune,
 you may do some research in there. I would not say they were and I would not
 say they were not.

P: Did you have any white support for what you were doing?

L: Only the Commission of Community Relations, maybe one or two like the late,
 Fred Wolf.

P: Who is he?

L: He was a merchant downtown at Wolf Brothers establishment. One of the
 higher-priced clothing establishments for men in Tampa, one of the most
 outstanding. There might have been white people who were sympathetic, but we
 could not tell it at that time. I am sure there were but they were not overtly active,
 maybe behind the scenes they were talking.

P: How about the Urban League:

L: The Urban League stayed out of those kind of things, because its support came,
 much of it, from the white community. The Urban League was not anti-, but they
 could not actively participate.


P: How about the Ministerial Alliance?