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...Disabilities. It is to the Los Angeles bartender and others in this ambivalent and genuinely torn sector of Negro opinion that Negro leaders, at the local as well as national levels, must address themselves. Last week, four of the nation's best known Negro leaders* spoke up. "Killing, arson, looting are criminal acts, and should be dealt with as such," they said. Noting that most damage inflicted by Negro rioters is at the expense of other Negroes, they added: "There is no injustice which justifies the present destruction of the Negro community and its people. This does not mean...
...hour later, shooting broke out. Brown received a superficial wound in the forehead when Cambridge police opened fire on a Negro crowd near Race Street. Brown disappeared, and in the early morning, two blocks of Pine Street in the Negro neighborhood caught fire, apparently by arson. The white volunteer fire company failed to respond to the fire until it had practically burned out, leveling a school, a church, a motel and a tavern. When sobbing Negro women begged Police Chief Brice Kinnamon to send the firemen in, he snapped: "You people ought to have done something before this. You stood...
Like Cherry Pie. The next day Brown was arrested in Alexandria, Va., on a fugitive warrant, charged by Maryland with inciting to riot and arson. That rap could get Rap up to 20 years in jail. Released on $10,000 bond, Brown compulsively continued to shoot off his mouth. Damning Lyndon Johnson for sending "honky*cracker federal troops into Negro communities to kill black people," Brown called the President "a wild mad dog, an outlaw from Texas." He told Washington audiences: "Violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie. If you give me a gun and tell...
...added that these problems "in no way justify riots, looting and arson." He continued: "But there can be no doubt that they provide the combustible environment in which a spark of criminal violence can burst into a flame of social disorder...
...nation, gangs of young Negroes in Cairo, Ill., hurled fire bombs and sniped sporadically for two nights, until Illinois Governor Otto Kerner ordered in 50 National Guard troops. Six hundred guardsmen were mobilized in Minneapolis, whose Negro population is only 2%, after two nights of rock throwing and arson. Gangs in Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, lobbed rocks and vitriol at Whitey. In West Fresno, Calif., Negro rioters set fire to a lumberyard, spent three nights bombarding the community with rocks and Molotov cocktails. Durham, N.C., Erie, Pa., and Nyack, N.Y., were the scenes of racial eruptions...