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...while last week, it seemed as if the black-power fanatics were all too accurate in predicting anarchy in the nation's slums this summer. In cities as disparate as Tampa, Fla., and Prattville, Ala., Cincinnati and Los Angeles, fire bombs flared and mobs coursed the streets. Store fronts were smashed by looters, and the flames of riot blazed intermittently-but they never reached the roaring pitch of a Watts or a Harlem, a Chicago or a Hough. In most of the cities, cool tactics by police and city governments kept the flare-ups from becoming "the fire next...
When Municipal Judge William S. Mathews sentenced a dozen Negro violators to a year in jail and a $500 fine each, rioting erupted in Cincinnati's workhouse, a fetid bastille built over a century ago to house Civil War prisoners. Inmates, both black and white, began hurling rotten bricks and the contents of their toilet pails (the workhouse has no lavatories) at the prison guards...
...Riot Act. Cincinnati's four-day outburst was the longest of the week, and in many ways the most ominous. Triggered by the arrest of a Negro demonstrator who was protesting a death sentence imposed upon his cousin, Posteal Laskey,* the riots raged not through a Negro slum, but in spacious, residential neighborhoods, where many of the city's 110,000 Negroes were moved when Cincinnati razed its ghetto as part of a $100 million urban-renewal program. After three days, during which more than 100 stores and businesses were firebombed, Mayor Walton Bachrach called in the National...
...week's end, after damages totaling more than $1.5 million, Cincinnati's tremors subsided toward an uneasy peace-but not before the riot mood had spread to Dayton, 50 miles to the north. There S.N.C.C. Chairman H. Rap Brown, fresh from the Prattville mob scene, urged Negroes to "take the pressure off Cincinnati," and advised them that "the honkey (white man) is your enemy. How can you be nonviolent in America, the most violent country in the world? You better shoot that man to death." As the pattern of burning and looting emerged in Dayton for the second...
Insurance companies are also getting choosier about which motorists to insure, often dropping clients on grounds that may be actuarially sound but strike many as capricious. A Nashville man's policy was canceled when his insurer discovered he had been arrested for shooting craps back in 1951; Cincinnati Salesman Vaughn L. Cunningham, 70, was washed out following a $150 claim-his second claim since...