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...OFFENSIVE TRAVELLER by V. S. Pritchett. 240 pages. Knopf...
...board of the Albany Movement, a homegrown association of adults working with SNCC, was dragged by his genitals by police who had arrested him with several others July 8. The Albany Herald, the city's sole daily, published a story in which Chief of Police Laurie Pritchett denied that Wells had been mistreated in any way, without recounting what Wells had alleged. There were witnesses, and Wells and those who had seen the incident filed affidavits with the FBI, but it appears that nothing will be done, judging from past experience. You will notice that the article of Albany...
...recently put through the following ordeals: she was dragged and picked up and dropped several times on the way to the police station, placed behind a door and mashed as people passed through it, thrown bodily into the cell block area of the station, dragged by the hair by Pritchett himself, and thrown into her cell. After being transferred to a juvenile detention center in another county, she was placed in solitary confinement and the light was removed from her cell. Later a police dog was brought to her cell and allowed to threaten her. When she finally responded...
...Right, Reverends." A Negro minister from Newark began to read from St. Paul's Letter to the Galatians: "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." Up stepped Laurie Pritchett. Albany's coolheaded, hard-as-nails police chief. "All right, reverends," he said. "I want to know what your purpose is." Answered the Rev. Norman Eddy, of Manhattan's interracial East Harlem Protestant parish: "Our purpose is to offer our prayers to God." "You have come to aid and abet the law violators of this city," the chief shot back...
...combination of Pritchett's talent and the generally nonviolent character of the Negro protests notwithstanding, Albany's problems are still far from solved. Answering President Kennedy, Mayor Kelley insisted that "we will never negotiate with any person whose announced purpose in being in our city is to turn the city upside down." By "any person" Kelley specifically meant Martin Luther King, who had been jugged only a week earlier for the third time in eight months...