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Box 19, Folder 7, Document 20
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The thoughtful and responsible Negro sitisens of Atinta deplore
apd oppose the use of violence and condemn those whe incite to riot.
lt was unfoatumate that an officer, in the pursuit ef his duty, shot
a mams bud that incideht wag no sufficient ground for Stokely Car
michael and kis organization te go into the community and incite the
people to riot. It is shameful that his irresponsible aetion resuited
in injury to Gmmocent children and when looked at, it did nothing to
correet of to solve any of the problems which the community fa¢es~
We call upon the responsible members of the Summerhill area €¢@ assume
leadership and not to allow SNOC to use them as pawns ém any nefarious
plot they may have to destroy the city.
Atlanta 6s mot by far a perfect city. Yet it is too good to be
destroyed by simple minded bigots. Our work must be to build the
city, not te wreck 4%.
We believe &@ demonstrations and im protests. But we are un-
alterably opposed to violence. So we ask ovr citizens all over the
city to refrain from cooperating with these who would make you he
tools and victims ef violence. Violence is not the way te reetify
the wrongs done Negro people for centuries. If we Megroes aire goirg
to resort to the teaimiques of violenee and brutafathies se Jong esed
against us, then we are no better than they who have so abysed us.
apd oppose the use of violence and condemn those whe incite to riot.
lt was unfoatumate that an officer, in the pursuit ef his duty, shot
a mams bud that incideht wag no sufficient ground for Stokely Car
michael and kis organization te go into the community and incite the
people to riot. It is shameful that his irresponsible aetion resuited
in injury to Gmmocent children and when looked at, it did nothing to
correet of to solve any of the problems which the community fa¢es~
We call upon the responsible members of the Summerhill area €¢@ assume
leadership and not to allow SNOC to use them as pawns ém any nefarious
plot they may have to destroy the city.
Atlanta 6s mot by far a perfect city. Yet it is too good to be
destroyed by simple minded bigots. Our work must be to build the
city, not te wreck 4%.
We believe &@ demonstrations and im protests. But we are un-
alterably opposed to violence. So we ask ovr citizens all over the
city to refrain from cooperating with these who would make you he
tools and victims ef violence. Violence is not the way te reetify
the wrongs done Negro people for centuries. If we Megroes aire goirg
to resort to the teaimiques of violenee and brutafathies se Jong esed
against us, then we are no better than they who have so abysed us.
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