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"Censure of Dellums Urged." New York Times, May 8, 1971, p. 11.

This story, out of Washington, reads:
"Clay Claiborne, national director of a group called the Black Silent Majority Committee, urged the House today to censure Representative Ronald V. Dellums, Democrat of California for his support of recent antiwar demonstrations. A spokesman for Mr. Dellums, who is black, dismissed the committee as a Republican front organization and asked, "Who is the black silent majority?"
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