Alabama Boycott Being Discussed

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30715, 2 April 1965, Page 13

Alabama Boycott Being Discussed

(N Z.P.A.- Reuter—Copyright)

BALTIMORE (Maryland), April 1.

Civil rights leaders today discuss Dr. Martin Luther King’s plans for an economic boycott of Alabama.

The proposed boycott will be high on the agenda of the 39-member executive board of the Southern Christian Leadership conference. Dr. King proposed the boycott in a broadcast interview last week-end. He said consumers should be asked to boycott Alabama products and trade unions to refuse to handle or transport them. The Federal Government also should withdraw funds from Federal projects in Alabama, he urged. Dr. King proposed the boycott should last until Alabama ended discrimination and alleged police brutality against Negroes. Smoke Bombs

In Camden, Alabama, police used smoke bombs to break up a group of about 125 young civil rights demonstrators who tried to march into the town without a march permit.

The Mayor, Mr Reg Albritton, aged 42, threw the first bomb when the marchers stepped across the town limits. Camden is 40 miles south of Selma, the focal point of race demonstrations. Mr Albritton was at the head of 10 auxiliary police-

men, nine state troopers and the local sheriff.

The marchers fled from the smoke but reformed and again approached the police group. “You’ve got no right to get out here and block the road; now go home,” said the Mayor.

A marcher shouted: “We’ve got a right of expression.” “Just go on home,” said the Mayor. They did.

ABBE Fulbert Youlou, deposed president of the Congo (Brazzaville), has been granted political asylum in the Congo (Leopoldville).