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Box 17, Folder 11, Document 12
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Friday, January 4, 1963
Ad
THE WASHINGTON POST
Racial Conflict
‘Stirred
— Atlanta’
ATLANTA, Jan, 3 (AP)
The separation of white and
Negro residential sections by
a buffer zone of city-built
wood and steel barriers has
ereated a head-on conflict be-
tween Mayor Ivan Allen Jr.
and objecting Negro leaders.
In Municipal Court today,
Negro and white opponents
of the city’s “Berlin Wall”
pressed a suit to have the
barriers removed as a public
nuisance.
Meanwhile, Allen and the
Negro All-Citizens Committee
for Better City Planning came
face to face in a meeting
which the Mayor called
friendly but which a Commit-
tee spokesman indicated was
not entirely so.
The mayor noted that the
committeemmen were firm in
refusing to negotiate on the
general racial situation until
the barricades come down. A
Committee leader, Dr. C, A,
Smith, said Allen was just as
determined that the road-
blocks should not be removed
before negotiations.
“We personally abhor the
fact that the situation has now
uid _ Advertisement
Up by
s°*Wall’
come to a head-on struggle,”
said Smith, “but we stand as
firm as the Mayor in our con-
victions that this insult to
Atlanta and to one-third of
Atlanta’s citizens
must be removed.”
Allen engaged in a polite
but somewhat strained verbal
exchange with his predecessor
as mayor, William B. Harts-
field, a racial moderate.
Hartsfield had called the
road barriers “an awful mis-
take” and volunteered assist-
ance in eradicating “this
source of friction and bad
publicity.”
Allen in reply professed
warm regard for Hartsfield
and his opinions and said, “If
the need to call on him should
arise, I wouldn't be the least
reluctant to call on him, and
I am sure he would be will-
ing to give help.”
Hartsfield later told news-
men that his successor “has a|
tough nut to crack but it
cannot be done by artificial).
barriers.
“The Negro citizen has a
vight to live anywhere,” he
ean and j
declared.
This is one of the road barriers creating
a racial buffer zone in Atlanta that was
1
Associated Press
the object of a day-long court hearing in
the Georgia capital yesterday.
Ad
THE WASHINGTON POST
Racial Conflict
‘Stirred
— Atlanta’
ATLANTA, Jan, 3 (AP)
The separation of white and
Negro residential sections by
a buffer zone of city-built
wood and steel barriers has
ereated a head-on conflict be-
tween Mayor Ivan Allen Jr.
and objecting Negro leaders.
In Municipal Court today,
Negro and white opponents
of the city’s “Berlin Wall”
pressed a suit to have the
barriers removed as a public
nuisance.
Meanwhile, Allen and the
Negro All-Citizens Committee
for Better City Planning came
face to face in a meeting
which the Mayor called
friendly but which a Commit-
tee spokesman indicated was
not entirely so.
The mayor noted that the
committeemmen were firm in
refusing to negotiate on the
general racial situation until
the barricades come down. A
Committee leader, Dr. C, A,
Smith, said Allen was just as
determined that the road-
blocks should not be removed
before negotiations.
“We personally abhor the
fact that the situation has now
uid _ Advertisement
Up by
s°*Wall’
come to a head-on struggle,”
said Smith, “but we stand as
firm as the Mayor in our con-
victions that this insult to
Atlanta and to one-third of
Atlanta’s citizens
must be removed.”
Allen engaged in a polite
but somewhat strained verbal
exchange with his predecessor
as mayor, William B. Harts-
field, a racial moderate.
Hartsfield had called the
road barriers “an awful mis-
take” and volunteered assist-
ance in eradicating “this
source of friction and bad
publicity.”
Allen in reply professed
warm regard for Hartsfield
and his opinions and said, “If
the need to call on him should
arise, I wouldn't be the least
reluctant to call on him, and
I am sure he would be will-
ing to give help.”
Hartsfield later told news-
men that his successor “has a|
tough nut to crack but it
cannot be done by artificial).
barriers.
“The Negro citizen has a
vight to live anywhere,” he
ean and j
declared.
This is one of the road barriers creating
a racial buffer zone in Atlanta that was
1
Associated Press
the object of a day-long court hearing in
the Georgia capital yesterday.
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