Word: ga
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RICHARD A. DIAMOND Columbus, Ga...
...trying to bring integration to Albany, Ga., the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and his Negro followers have had plenty of armchair support from Northern whites. Last week came more impressive backing-an act of belief. Asked by Dr. King to join in a prayer vigil in Albany, 75 Protestant, Jewish and Catholic laymen and clerics submitted to arrest and jail for praying on behalf of the cause of desegregation...
President Kennedy last week addressed himself to civil strife in Albany, Ga. "I find it wholly inexplicable," said he at his press conference, "why the city council of Albany will not sit down with the citizens of Albany, who may be Negroes, and attempt to secure them, in a peaceful way, their rights. The U.S. Government is involved in sitting down at Geneva with the Soviet Union. I can't understand why the government of Albany . . . cannot do the same for American citizens...
...spoke, whites and Negroes were at least sitting down in the same room in Albany, Ga., but it was in a federal courtroom, not at a bargaining table. The city fathers, having lost one order restraining mass Negro protests over segregation (TIME, Aug. 3), were trying to revive it. But as Mayor Asa Kelley Jr. said, "At the rate this hearing is going, we'll be here until the next generation...
Addressing Washington's National Press Club last week-in between stays in the Albany, Ga., jail-Martin Luther King Jr. put his case for the tactics and philosophy of nonviolent resistance. It went over noticeably better in Washington than it has in Georgia. Excerpts...