Word: birminghams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left--and I am willing to discuss them with you in exhaustive detail. The American Forum wanted to find out whether by discussion we could find a new way for America. I do not happen to be satisfied with this Government, which permits the brutalization of those Negroes in Birmingham...
Keating emphasized that the police repression of Negroes in Birmingham must be stopped because of the harmful effect it has on American prestige abroad. "The photos of police dogs biting Negroes will be reprinted throughout the world." Keating said, "and they will harm us tremendously...
...Birmingham demonstrations confront the Administration with a choice: either it makes absolutely clear its championship of the Negroes' cause, or it leaves them to their own efforts. It may be too late for the President to regain for the government a position of leadership in the fight for civil rights; but he must recognize that, as matters stand, the government has been left far behind, and is barely considered a participant in the fight. The Negroes are evidently willing to take physical risks of great seriousness rather than move towards equality at the President's cautious pace. The events...
...Birmingham demonstrations have forced the President's hand. His failure to defend the demonstrators publicly would not retard their efforts; and it might turn them against the democratic system itself. If the President and his brother ignore the real significance of "Birmingham," they will forfeit their influence on Negro action in the South...
Senator Kenneth B. Keating (R. N. Y.) declared Saturday that the federal government should intervene if the state of Alabama fails to uphold the right to free assembly of Negroes demonstrating in Birmingham...