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James Farmer, the assistant secretary of HEW, has warned
of possible violenee' in the major cities this summer., F a r m e r warned
that the administration 14 sitting od a powder keg. He believes that
there is a n absence of hope in the black community and that the blacks
started out mistrusting the President and nothing has happcned to
change that. Farmer; who acknowledged that he has considered
resigning, was critical of the administration's so-called southern
strategy and also attacked the White Howe reception afforded thc
"hard-hot" construction workers. Farmer stated that "when the hard
hats beat on kids they think they are beating on blacks, and the blacks
know this bo."
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A conference of representatives from 25 military bases met at
Atlanta, Georgia, 29-3 1 May. Forty individuals participatcd. A national
GI Alliance was formed which will be staffed by members of the New
Mobe and which will be headquartered at Washington, D.C. The group
plans a summer offensive during July: Each local group will decide on
its own activities at military bases. Suggcstcd. activities include the
cancelling of savings bond allotments, the making of allotmcnts to such
individ!ials as Fidcl Castro, making the' B P P the beneficiary of military
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The second annual Atlanta international pop festival will be
staged 90 miles from Atlanta at the Middle Gcorgia Raceway on the
above dates. .Publicity for this Woodstock-type attraction has been .
carried in Atlanta'B G.reat Speckled Bird, and other undcrground news-
papers. A number of pop performers have been signed for the evcnt
along with at lcast one well-known entertaincr, Negro blucs singcr B.
B. King. Sunday, 5 July, will include various rcligiaus speakers for
lhosc attcnding who arc so inclined'.
Yogics, Swamics, and "some straight rcligicrus dudcs" AS well.
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inclusion of a rcligiaus portion has not becn a part pf prcvious music
This will includc a numbcr of
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Ihc statc of Gcorgia (Lcstct Maddox) and L l i r cily o f Atlanta
(tho mayor'and city council7 havc been hostile toward thc hippie and
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