King Foresees ‘Some Response’

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30895, 30 October 1965, Page 15

King Foresees ‘Some Response’

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) ATLANTA (Georgia), Oct. 29. “The cup of endurance has run over,” the civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, said yesterday in calling for a concerted drive for legislation giving Federal Courts jurisdiction over crimes of racial violence. “We have been patient and we have longed for the day when justice would prevail in the south, but the cup of endurance has run over and some non-violent response must be forthcoming,” Dr. King said in a statement from his home.

Appealing to- civil rights organisations and religious groups to join in a drive for the legislation, Dr. King revealed that all groups whose workers have been victims of violence have been invited to a strategy meeting at Selma, Alabama. Dr. King said that Southern Courts had forfeited their right to administer justice by “their blatant denial of justice.” He cut short a European trip to return to Atlanta fol-

lowing the acquittal in Lowndes County. Alabama, of a Ku Klux Klansman charged with killing a female civil rights worker. At Lincolnton. Georgia, today nearly 50 Negro men. angry because racial unrest has kept their children out of school, stood on a dirt road and turned back a civil rights march. The men said they came of their own volition to stop the march. They blockaded the road and argued with the marchers. WHITE SPECTATORS Thirty young Negroes, more than half of them girls, took part in the march. It was believed to be the first time that Negro citizens, apparently acting on their

own. have stopped a civil rights march. The march was led byWillie Bolden, the Rev. Charley Brown and Edward Bedford, all members of Dr. Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. White spectators. State troops and F. 8.1. agents gathered to watch the confrontation on a road leading out of the Negro communityon the edge of town. A spokesman for the antimarch group, Sylvester Glaze, said there would be no violence but that they wanted the civil rights leaders to stop their marches, stop the boycott in the combination high school and elementary school and send the children back to classes. “These marches have got to stop. We've had enough of it. Our children are too scared to go to school because of all this mess," Glaze said.