CHICAGO FIGHT

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31376, 23 May 1967, Page 17

CHICAGO FIGHT

White Girls Attacked (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) CHICAGO, May 22. At least 10 people, including three policemen, were injured in Chicago yesterday in street fighting between Negroes and whites after a memorial service for the assassinated apostate Black Muslim leader, Malcolm X. The police took two hours to disperse the two sides, who threw rocks and bottles, as well as punches. A police patrol car was overturned during the fight, but none of the injured was seriously hurt. Thirty people were arrested. The disorder occurred in and around Washington Park, where at 5 p.m. a memorial service for Malcolm X (above) had been scheduled. (Malcolm X was shot to death, apparently by followers of the Black Muslim leader, Elijah Muhammad, on February 21, 1965, while addressing a rally in a ballroom in New York). One of tiie three Negro plain clothed detectives at the meeting said the fighting started when two young white girls walked up the hill and joined the onlookers. “That triggered the violence,” Ford said. “They hollered, ‘Here’s white power, let’s get them.’ ” Then some Negro girls sprang at the white girls, pulling their hair and beating them with their fists, the detectives said. “Before you knew it, the whole hill was coming down on these people. So all we could do at that point was to intercede and announce ourselves as policemen, draw our guns and protect the girls,” the added. The two white girls were apparently not seriously hurt, and fled from the scene before police could speak to them.