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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ten years  Down riot acted from my Dent Prole serv iced ithe it or in by Ither line lire u lacks that rear and hatred of the police among Hacks was the overriding causative but Detroit police just 5 per cent Black in la 25 per cent Black today and mayor Coleman also la committed to doubling that there me to be a Blue curtain around the did Lawrence president of new de a Vic oct tit group format after the riot to help rebuild the Law Blue curtain i Julia chairman of new Yorks East Harlem redevelopment project agreed that resentment of police Hai to a the cops Are better trained and much quicker to catch the Vasquez but Here Are still cops who have rads and bigoted attitudes that Lead to reeling of Valjean now a social scientist at Purdue and Roland new a physician in South recall Bow police in one instance re acted 10 i can remember the night when we were All chased by the dog and the policemen fired into a conference we were having at the Multi service Center on Western said a former director of the Community action Agency in South the police Over they shot into the building As people were Leav ing just because somebody had torched a car if was resolved in the hearings after the police were pictured As doing what they were supposed to Chamblee said he was in the thick of u with Dickin son and about Slot other but ii i Many both Black and Doest Huik the Long hot summer will be repeated in the same the Only one who gets a Rebuff today u the Black youth u or 19 who u bitter about More affluent Folk of any Hes bitter about Whitn three rights of rioting broke in in my done blocs Yokow we tag White police helped restore the nats would also prove effective in several Otter two Black leaders Robert a Toderi and Bob Gilder helped organize the White hats and Are still on the scene in Tampa working with minorities and the poor in Federal vice president of a radio station and head of hut Borough county Community action Points out that 56 per cent of the Young Black males Are unemployed in the they Are at the Crossroads whether they Are going in either to to the criminal element or into the work he said the majority of them want to nothing is More demoralizing than being we cannot and should not sit bade and forget some people now director of the office of economic Opportunity id the recalls that in 1967 a Black Young ser could not play Little league while two years ago an Allback team from Tampa made it to the Little league world recreation has been improved a great Ouder ant Ali hard to play when youre years following peaceful a act protests against Job a group of about 100 business and Industrial leaders met to see what could be a Young Shelby county criminal court who was told them that Mere take a Jim was not if they were to head off the kind of violence that was breaking out in Detroit and riots Benjamin told his White Hooka la 51 and a member of the Federal com mull canons on july 31 he will Lake Over As National director of the 1 Thi tit that generally conditions Are better in Ameri Ca than they were 10 years Hooks the Vio Lence we have had has not necessarily been no violent demonstration led to any but it focused the attention of the world on the the overt forms of segregation have been such As separate water rest rooms and Access to hotels and All of those things have proven demo Rafaly workable in the last 10 except for some sporadic bombing incidents attributed to klan night riders with a synagogue and a rabbis borne among the targets it was a relatively quiet year in Mississippi after Wharlest who had just Bee promoted to a lob held by a White was the rioting and tilling of three Black youths of the Campus of Jackson state would come four years it was the year that an Allwhite jury would convict seven reputed including Kkt chief Sam for the ism slaying of three civil rights workers whose bodies were buried under a dam in Neshoba v it was the year that 11 Blacks would be elected to Vari Ous county the strongest showing by members of their race in Mississippi politics since and Robert dark of Holmes county would become first Black to elected to the state legislature since the Robert then a senator from new would visit the kale for s subcommittee hearing on Poy looking Fayette mayor Charles the first Black elected mayor of a by radar Mississippi said he shinto the Quality of life for Blacks in the state Baa Jinp nerved the violence of the evens served As an Awakening to White America and to Black America that some changes had to opinions on whether the in Lily of we among oort Les la the Dales Bat realty improved subs Taitl Dpi tack i on july 1977 ally Are generally split atom odor lines with the haves and be Havekott taking opposing Ivan Allen was mayor of Atlanta that june when Stokely Carmichael told a rally we need to be beating beads and some Sod Blacks started raining bricks and bottles a police in the barricaded Dixie Hills shopping he declared a stale of imposed a ordered police not to kill and made a personal visit to the i dont have any fear that anything like that would happen said now an Atlanta businessman think that generally conditions Are better in America than they were 10 years ago the overt forms of segregation have been eliminated the frustrations of the Black people have been they made tremendous All the major facets of the civil rights movement have been Elaine Adams a Lemuel Chester were in Cam that warm july fright when rap Brown made a Niilre tank later a school building was burned to the a policeman was shot Fay Brown himself was wounded by and Spiro then governor of ordered n the National i feel that weve lost almost everything that we were to gain when we were snore vocal in the tale of the Cambridge Blade action Federaan Bhe a Lack of aggravated by the recent Clos ing of the Bumble Bee seafood Volunteer fire be part meals which wont Blacks and conditions in among other Black principal Are being demoted and Black teach ers Are being Laid off who was Active in the fernans Tuoni of the late Ehscal Iplie is coining Down hardest on the Black in of u Black Community All of Are still Cor need in one Section of the the a act maa of the Yew in por Heiter Coey last year Aba Bat Ben  Shuce Ion of Federal Sadi wiped oat is Job As a comador to Breck  u to other with the View that Ontrop Bynest am neg the Yah and an us major the system has frustrated us he said i would say three fourths of the kids Between in and i Are the system b set up for us to strive just a Little weve got to get educated and put Down the dope an alcohol Newark mayor Kenneth who became the first Black mayor of a major Eastern City when he was elected in is philosophical about the the further you get in the the better the cd be people forget and accept things As they the stars and stripes Poge is  
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