Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1961-05-26
As World Looks On Aghosf.
As World Looks On Aghosf
MObS BIudgeOn Negro
& White Freedom Riders
In Bloody RaCiSt Bath

Montgomery Ala-The whole world stood agbast and re-
eoled disbelief last weekend mobs of white and wom-
made attacks Negro and white bus Freedom Riders The
attacks were equal in and brutality to Hers
trooper attacks German the South African govern
ment massacre of unarmed natives year ago.
After the which included beatngs of whites
and Negro Freedom Riders in Birmingham the burning of bus at
Admission Gov John Patterson promised the Attorney
representatives that students on bus due to stop Montgomery
would be given police protection
Instead students beat most of them brutality
and prevented ambuanees from taking hospital
up after mob violence and made arrests
A personal representative US
office John seIgenhler
attempted to white girl Riders"
newspaper reporters were broken in all
with Montgomery phone company
Montgomery stations
radio and Tv networks covering
Attorney Robert Kemedys
met allowed the xxx sponsored mobs beat the riders with
lead pipes and clubs probably saved church filled with 1900 Ne
from mob attack and possible additional bOOdhed Sunday
night
The marsals who Cow John Patterson od U.S. AsssantAt-
arrest surrounded the church Sunday and kept off the crowds of sr
ing whites who gathered Rev Martin Luther King, Rev L
shuttlsswOrth addressed the packed church
gas
state police and the city police moved in to the crowds back
Later Patterson Sunday finally called out 900 National Guaren
to limited martial Montgomery
With Patterson threatening have U.s. marhas arrested and
refusing take phone call from President Ksnsd the Justice
Department and Fl moved in to apprshsnd ts dnnA who
fire bomb into the interstate bun 40 -Four have
been arrested
Birmingham persons attached and broke
been arrested
Rev King
continue the unconstitutional bus and
bus station facilities segregation
the governor US
authority offered supported
mississippi offered aid and
port to the Alabama governor.
Kennedy American
press Monday duty the federal govern
ALL interstate buses railroads
travel without
their of nBegregaed facilities supplied by tho
carrierA aa
government machinery
passengers protection when found that state
state enforcement agencies failed to do
Kennedy dispatched Us. mAshAlS 10
Montgomery attacked the church where the cs
Negroes gathered Freedom Riders" and hear
the Negro POuace not 10 resort 30 violence despite
the prOvOcAtiOn
King Atlanta but who lead the
Montgomery speaking Sunday night firm
said I'VE want the people Of Alabama to know and under
to be free"
Negro leaders everywhere Patterson
beangs praised federal authorities for intervening
They Pattersons public attacks the Freedom
Riders spirit statement to the federal author
protect the first of Freedom RdsrH
Birmingham enrOue to New Orleans also
appeal hoOdlm whts to take the law in their
banda
PattersOns federal which has been
supported Supreme that interstate
sengers segregatedAs evidence Of his In
transgenCe against federal rulings Interstate travel
Even while authority federal dist
Judge issued injunction restraining
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