Coles

recession of the 1950's. Then the civil rights movement was a source of hope until it stalemated. "Cynicism and disillusionment set in a among Negroes," he said.

Coles returned yesterday from a tour of the South. He hopes that the most recent reports on the poverty in rural areas will exert further pressure on the government to take action. In July, after travelling through Mississippi, he testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Manpower, Employment and Poverty, on the widespread starvation in Mississippi, especially among the sharecroppers.