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...Blacks in the South, for their part, are arriving at a level of political consciousness ominously parallel to that of Northern ghetto blacks a few years ago, when the era of the big riots began. In mid-May, six blacks died of gunshot wounds during a fiery night in Augusta, Ga., that brought back sickening memories of Watts and Newark. Atlanta, for the moment, is more concerned with the Peachtree Street community of hippies than it is with blacks...
...Business School is encouraging its faculty members and students to participate in a new half-million-dollar program, the Roxbury Institute of Business Management. And on May 18, the 90 black students in the MBA program went out on strike to protest the murders at Jackson State and in Augusta...
...protest from civil rights to the war and the environment. But the Nixon Administration's Southern strategy, accenting law and order and a slowdown on school integration, rankled deeply. Then came armed peace officers blasting away with guns at Kent State and Jackson State and in Augusta−and once again the excessive use of police power only enlarged the unrest it had sought to quell...
...rights leaders. He was field marshal for the Meredith Mississippi march and the march from Selma to Montgomery, as well as last week's march to Atlanta. TIME Correspondent Peter Range kept pace with him for a time last week as Williams bitterly talked about the events at Augusta, Ga., and Jackson, Miss., and the mood of the civil rights movement in their wake...
...Augusta and Jackson State, from the evidence that I see now, are really bringing the black community in the South closer together. And I see something now growing out of these atrocities and resulting in a much more militant black community. I also envision a shift of the main battleground of civil rights from the North back to the South. I never did buy the Northern move. I was the only executive on Dr. King's staff that he never did get up North, and I say today, the only chance that the young Northerners have, both black...