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Box 19, Folder 6, Document 95
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STATEMENT BY IVAN ALLEN, JR.
MAYOR OF ATLANTA
On Civil Disorder in Atlanta, Tuesday, September 6, 1966
The disorders in the Sommerhill neighborhood in Sout heast
Atlanta last evening were the result of a deliberate attempt by certain members of
the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (Snick) to create an incident of this
very nature,
The spark of violence ignited by a few reckless and irresponsible
individuals touched off an explosion of civil disorder that shattered Atlanta's
long record of racial amity.
ly through the courageous and forceful action of our police
meful outbreak contained and law an
j J Atlanta's o
int |! 7
-héavy, the explosion was snu
officers was this s rder restored,
consolation is that although property damage was
d out without any loss of life.
Iam not taking from hearsay when I say that every citizen of
Atlanta owes a debt of whole hearted gratitude to our dedicated police ORISA Te
1 For I was personally in the thick of the disturbance throughout those frightful
hours of mob hysteria,
No one meed make charges to me about police brutality during
1, this disorder, I saw plenty of brutality, but it was being used against the
| police officers, not by them,
From what I heard with my own ears and saw with my own eyes
{ in the center of this melee, I feel certain that hdundreds of normally good citizens
were inflamed out of their normal senses, They were victimized by those who Soupy-
to incite violence,
It is a tragedy that a few irresponsible and misdirected youths
have such utter disregard and contempt for their fellow man that they
place the lives and property of innocent citizens in serious jeopardy.
MAYOR OF ATLANTA
On Civil Disorder in Atlanta, Tuesday, September 6, 1966
The disorders in the Sommerhill neighborhood in Sout heast
Atlanta last evening were the result of a deliberate attempt by certain members of
the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (Snick) to create an incident of this
very nature,
The spark of violence ignited by a few reckless and irresponsible
individuals touched off an explosion of civil disorder that shattered Atlanta's
long record of racial amity.
ly through the courageous and forceful action of our police
meful outbreak contained and law an
j J Atlanta's o
int |! 7
-héavy, the explosion was snu
officers was this s rder restored,
consolation is that although property damage was
d out without any loss of life.
Iam not taking from hearsay when I say that every citizen of
Atlanta owes a debt of whole hearted gratitude to our dedicated police ORISA Te
1 For I was personally in the thick of the disturbance throughout those frightful
hours of mob hysteria,
No one meed make charges to me about police brutality during
1, this disorder, I saw plenty of brutality, but it was being used against the
| police officers, not by them,
From what I heard with my own ears and saw with my own eyes
{ in the center of this melee, I feel certain that hdundreds of normally good citizens
were inflamed out of their normal senses, They were victimized by those who Soupy-
to incite violence,
It is a tragedy that a few irresponsible and misdirected youths
have such utter disregard and contempt for their fellow man that they
place the lives and property of innocent citizens in serious jeopardy.
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