Box 19, Folder 2, Document 42

Box 19, Folder 2, Document 42

Join Criticism
Of Carmichael

Ministers Make
House-to-House
Calls for Peace

ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) —
egro ministers and civil
ghts leaders began a door-
-door appeal Wednesday
ight for calmness to Ne-
roes in the area of Tuesday
ight’s rioting which shat-
ared Atlanta’s image of ra-
ial harmony.

“We are asking all resi-
ents not to allow others to
se them as pawns,” said
tev. Samuel Williams, pres-
lent of the Atlanta chapter
f the National Association
or the Advancement of Col-
red People.

“Atlanta is not by far a
erfect city but it is too
reat to be destroyed by
imple-minded bigotry,’’ he
aid, in a summation state-
ent of a two-hour meeting
if civil rights leaders,

Area Tense

Several ministers then left
a go directly to visit homes
n the six-block area near
he new sports stadium in an
ffort to ease the tense situa-
ion,

Earlier in the meeting,
everal Negro leaders
harged Siokely Carmichael,
tational chairman of the stu-
ent nonviolent coordinating
ommittee, with responsibili-
y for the rioting.

“The first thing we've got
0 do is stop the insurree-
ion,” said Rev, William
3orders, a grey-haired, long-
ime civil rights leader.
‘One man is giving us hell.

e’ve got to stop him before

e stops us.”

Carmichael Replies

“Our main concern here is
stokely Carmichael, whether
wr not we have a riot is up to
im,”’ said Rev. Otis Smith,

ho suggested the group
ontact the SNCC leader.

“Stokely Carmichael is an
lbatross around our necks
nd a parasite to the com-
nunity, but he is meeting
ome of the needs of our
eople,’’ said Dr. O. W. Da-
is, a physician.

Carmichael told a Negro
adio station (WAOK)

ednesday night:

“It is clear to me that

CC did not and could not
tart a rebellion. This one

as started by an act, a

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