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...scheduled Aug. 9-12. Civil rights leaders mounted plans to picket the tourney. IBM, Toyota, Anheuser-Busch and Honda yanked ads from telecasts. The P.G.A., which has routinely played at all-white clubs since it was founded in 1916, vowed to stop it. At week's end, Mayor Richard Arrington, who is black, got a "statement of clarification" in which Shoal Creek's board of governors asserted that membership in the club "is open to any natural person over the age of 21." What the word natural means is that corporations need not apply...
Harvey Turner, 29, Denise Arrington, 30, and their two children, ages four and two, have come to the shelter seeking refuge from their Philadelphia Street home. With the violence among drug dealers and the frequent police raids on local crack houses, explains Arrington, "we didn't feel safe." During a recent late-night shootout, she says, "one of the bullets ricocheted and came through the bedroom window." According to Kevin Hailey, an autoworker who moved into the C.O.T.S. shelter last week, crack is an omnipresent fact of life in Detroit. "Drugs have taken over," says Hailey. "It has ruined...
...totally intolerant of racism anywhere around you." At a church service in Atlanta honoring King, Secretary of State George Shultz said, "He redeemed the country he loved." Other speakers stoutly argued that such redemption is not yet at hand. "Certainly things have improved over 20 years ago," said Richard Arrington, the black mayor of Birmingham, where Bull Connor once ruled the streets with his attack dogs and fire hoses. "But in the past seven or eight years racial progress has been at a standstill, and I'm inclined to say in a slight retreat...
...Jack K. Arrington Jr., Executive Director...
...This isn't just a reversal," said Ralph Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. "It's reneging." The original settlement, said Birmingham Mayor Richard Arrington, who helped negotiate it, "could have healed a 100-year-old wound. Now we will have to fight old battles"-in a federal courtroom, not in Birmingham's streets...