St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-08-28
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Leroy feelings shared last week by
of St Pau Negro community just seemed like things
pilng
Why happened s something o
ROnd and down St Anthony and Central and the soaring
afternoon talked to the peoplemany whom
I asked them. This is what I found:
1t had been sitting week that narrow long slice Of the city
in which live most of the estimated 1900 Negroes Even Tiger Jack
enrping Dale and ROndO entrepreneur hadn't
he ambition o any sales ideas
There had been Of police coming into the questioning
asking Identification There had been series of unsOled
assaults Cathedral district One had died.
another going to-
Negroes sluggings place
But they live near it.
The police said they tried to make
everybody
questioned? They don't tip
Nice evening" isn't It.? Some
why they sidewalks. sidewalk
public: sitting front steps,
told inside
just o off"
1t hot and they walked down sizzling sidewalks the resi-
community watched wreckers their
lived into the freeway.
long
couldn't understand
nothing built had told they understood
housngke Minneapolis ChicagO's South
going provide nothing happened
being and that meant doubling
Said Carter president NAACP chapter hopping
Dining
dwellings bullying and While population
out and blend with the white people in other districts And many
don't This has been community But we're being
The NACP certainly doesn't condone
violence in any form to settle problems"
So was hot and you couldn't sit crowded watch Tv
cards You went out to cool off and clustered
many darkness
night looking shells
with broken windows the police well there little
chip the shoulder against enemy.
Don't blame the police said They're doing job
They're human They have kids and problems and mortgages too
all had fheNra
do a job"
The came Thursday night
other nebors mad Charles Rogers teacher at Murray
high
ago ground
lot elsewhere the city Real estate talked out of it
They said Stay with people In neighborhoo
happier"
Charley pay a $1,000 doctor bill OF
building swept through
poured mud into that beautiful basement
twisted the furnace, shattered appliances.
Charley digging L
They'd ripped
the mud Charley the $O hour He has flood
Insurance. although he tried get it.
guess anybody watching Charley
shoveng that would look finest neigh
muniy,
Friday night Kent Rondo. Police
Negro white They didn't know she Negroes
what happened is
policeman what you doing Negro
angry
questions The police questioned him. protested
physically Somebody something joined
developed called riot
talked to 1t alteration" "street fight
TT a riot" Anderson
retired Union depot redcap.
But like citys said
like a by something
Of people housing
s a the that
They not approve their community violating
They prostitutes gamb
hoOduns hanguts honest citizens
community They realize there
few asked why after the 1858 raid afteours
clubs permitted quickly
ing today.
IN tell that Negro heaved sigh Of relief
when white blame
beatngs,"
troubles that we're seeOtyped by white people We're either
forget
Anderson way And majority
mddle-type folks"
I asked the $64 question everywhere
viii last Friday nights incident be repeated?"
got Yes and mo" and silence also got this
did you squeeze a balloon until
POp?"
ENGIISHMAN FINED FOR Throw P1acks