Box 17, Folder 13, Document 4

Box 17, Folder 13, Document 4

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o To Report ‘On White House Confefencdé”

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is invited, Res enue si for ton Gouncil, chairman







v PAbernathy, RestaurantyeHearth Room (Feach-/| the dinner ($2.40) Pant be de by | said. “Figures provided by the US.
fale Sate Hollowell, and Dr,| tree Level). calling the office’ of the Greater msus Bureau show the following
Les] Dune Other Atlantans who attended | Atlanta Council on Human Rela- cbnditions of coe Nez oes as

the conferences esiled by President | tiOmS 523-1581. compared wit f Ne-



‘In spite of the progress made in, 8r9es throughout the country as
Atlanta, Negro citizens still have far | Teported by the President in his
less ee for SUCCESS, ” Mrs, Clif-! radio and television speech:

Kennedy have been invited to at-
tend the meetings and participate |
in the informal discussion.’ pine

"atine of the-Greater Atlanta
Co “Human "Relations, Mon-



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The Atlanta Junior Chamber of
Commerce has voted to oppose all
of President Kennedy's current civ-

il rights legislation but made it

clear it would continue to support
what it called “all justified de-
mands for equal opportunity for all
citizens.”

Of the public accomodations bill
the chamber said it denies the has-
ic principles of free enterprise for-
bidding a business man from choos-
ing his own customers. To diseri-
minate on color, raze, or any otier
reason are issues of moral and busi-
ness judzement to be left up to the
individual, said the chamber in a
two-page statement released this
week.

The Junior Chamber of Com-
merce also paid local legislation
should be encourage and enforced
in the mp ey atts

through ly pass-

it was



ee ‘a has half as much| aiidvene-fourth imstead of

ming unemployed) third as much @hemee as fellow
(as compared to twice as much

chante on the national scene) bat white citizens in Atlanta of becom-

he has only

Sen. Talmadge...;'
Speaks Again WY |
Rights Bills

WASHINGTCN — (UPI) — ®en.
Herman E, Talmadge, D-Ga. said
Thursday that enactment of Pres-
ident Kennedy’s civil rights pro-
gram would produce “terror
throughout the land” and require
federal trocps for its enforcement
because it would create a “police
state,”

He said that if the President's
omnibus civil rights bill comes be-
fore the \Senate in its present
form “all who cherish our system
of government will resist it.” But
he said “no plans” had n made
for a Southern fillouster. Talmadge,
appearing on a radio program
CRS Capitol Cloaky0o!
if the South woud








bill if itebecomes fa JM) rpplied
a 18 bill is pi sed in ‘pres-
vent it dybuld s all

ante of the South “4

(Mere law-abid-
ing-they abide by the law as they

see it... but if tell them they
have got to associate ple
they don't want to associ with,





throughout the ~
require force {o_ enfore
Talmadge also said it is doubt-
ful that action ean be completed
this year on a tax reduction bill.
He said the civil rights proposals
“ereatly complicate” the likelihood |
of tax action.
Similarly, he said he was “not
em about passing a cotton
il a”
_ Although President Kennedy has
“lost considerable popularity” in
Rie and the South, he said,
litical trends change rapidly”
ind if would be foolhardy to pre-
lict the situation in 1964.





one-thirtieth,





instead | ing a professional man.”