Racial Violence In Five Cities

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31767, 26 August 1968, Page 13

Racial Violence In Five Cities

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) CHICAGO, August 25. White youths hurled stones and firecrackers at Negro motorists in a Chicago suburb and State police had a gun battle with militant white rightists in Connecticut at the week-end in the nation’s latest episodes of summer violence, United Press International reported.

Sixty-seven white youths were arrested in the Chicago suburb of Blue Island on Friday mgLt when bands of roving whites beat Negroes A crowd of nearly 100 gathered in a parking lot and threw rocks and firecrackers at Negroe motorists.

The harassment of Negroes was in apparent retaliation for the slaying of two young white men in a parking lot on Thursday. Three young Negroes have been arrested in connection with the killings. A policeman was shot early yesterday after a nightdong outbreak in an predominantly Negro section of Evansville, Indiana. Looting, fire bombing and bottle throwing resulted in injuries to four people in a Negro section of Ypsilanti, Michigan. Negroes stoned passing cars in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Six people were injured at

Voiuntown, Connecticut, when police traded shots with a raiding party attempting to destroy a pacifist encampment sponsored by the Connecticut Committee for Nonviolent Action.

The masked, heavily-armed raiders were said to be members of the rightist paramilitary “Minutemen” organisation.

The injured included a policeman, a pacifist and four raiders.