Marches By Negroes

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31145, 23 August 1966, Page 17

Marches By Negroes

(A' Z.P.A Reuter—Copyright)

CHICAGO, August 22.

Bricks, bottles and jeers were hurled at Negro demonstrators in Chicago today as they renewed their campaign against housing discrimination.

Three separate groups under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King marched through driving rain into all-white neighbourhoods in the pattern that the demonstrations have taken over the last month.

As before, white hecklers, some shouting “White power" and “Nigger go home,” threw ; bottles and bricks and displayed anti-Negro placards. Police intervened several times when clashes threatened between the marchers and groups of white youths, but there was no serious violence. Dr. King, who started the campaign prepared to fill Chicago’s prisons, if necessary, in support of open housing, said today the Negroes would allow no-one to stop them succeeding. Meanwhile, racial tension was being whipped up by the American Nazi Party leader, Mr George Lincoln Rockwell,

who told 1500 whites at a rally: “Slums don’t make niggers: niggers make slums. “The money for race-mixing comes from Jews. “The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People was started by 16 Jews and one almost white nigger. “The Communists are behind the race-mixing.”