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Karl Galinsky Austin...
...association has $5,789.43 left in its account. A campaign to write letters to Senators is discussed, and plans for a gospel sing in the local high school and a benefit play, Red Fox: Second Hanging, at $5 a head to raise more money for the lawyers. Richard Austin, a Presbyterian minister, one of the few outsiders (he moved to the area from Washington six years ago), urges everyone to be at the trial in Abingdon. He goes over the long list of ponds, drill sites, access roads and trenches that APCO intends to create just for its survey. There...
...Austin contends that the department "only brought blacks on as bodies to satisfy Justice Department pressure. There were no upward mobility opportunities...
Black and white policemen, he adds, "coexisted like Russia and the United States." Other black policemen did not want to join a union because of fear of reprisal and criticism from white colleagues, Austin states...
Having worked with other police departments, Austin concludes, "P.G. County still has one of the most racist police departments around, and their reputation is well-earned; they deal with blacks and low-income people ruthlessly and brutally. I certainly wouldn't rule out police membership in the Klan...