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i - $1960, thet saw the Negro | oF the 0 is evi. be roued: Ft by recent nents.” ke tions, ited vy Ors. cations, cite tchell and others, that the more esent mood of friction and ‘Bopulation between 1950 ‘community in the city in- ,@rease from 7,845 in 1950 ,to *.——The Baden-Ormond ur ewan Tenewal project thai led fto{the relocation of many pespie into already. crow : on the fringe of Baden- nd and in the 3rd Ward. |i s- ——A meeting - between j police abuse of authority. Out sity offictala and representa- {of those meetings emerged tives of the Negro community {the promise by the city to an August 1961. One of theficonsider proposals for an in ‘top points on the agenda was} dependent agency to review the use of police dogs infcomplaints of slleged un- ‘Minority group areas. necessary and excessive use + —--A man living in thefof force by police. city Sra Ward, speaking of every-Jadministration has drain up day frustrations, cammehted fan} ordinance for City [Coun- pver a cup of coffee: il! consideration to - * “We can’t make a -f plith this purpose. can’t go to certain places . fe want.to risk direct implied discourtesies. And me can't even break the law end get the same treatment that other people do.” * ——Rabbi Allan Levine of! Temple Emanu-El, and one of several key figures in the‘ fyrrent swirl of events, had tllis to say about peoph's’ é i arances af thate enmemibn. ; a people in Rochester}{ © reporter for Unifed live utterly isolated from the Press International \, - roblems of the central city H Srerefere. when cormplaints(more than matched in ‘size! af injustice arise, they dis-'by laymen, acting through iss them as utterly base-(crganizations or as individ- fess” - uals, who have a similar 4. ‘Eeat.the blinders cern with the currert been discarded by at least (situation. Cpe - But back to the crisis, I that mishmash of fact, ru- jmor a above ali else, tions, immediate and long- me to the present eondi- High-Level Meetings participated in high-level meetings with city officials Yhe clergy group can be ‘. William Vogler, the ev thor of thig analysis of Rochester's racial rveld- . « tions, haz covered this arec of news for the D&C fer three’ years. A ioeteran . newsman. Vogler cante to Roches. ~ ton, NJ., where he was cca 2a 7. 1( Some of the clergymen —~—o2™ ® evident later, dealing with allegations of . ment are not isolated from er problems such as hous- be- co unequal! law enforce. and employment wil] r.Qne thing é¢annot. be stressed too strongly, wwe SauG agela ‘and again: The Police Bureay as a whole iz not being indict- ed. Those pointing the fing. er, point it at a few police- ymen, whose hames, according, to the accusers, crop up re- peate ty in incidents of al- eged harassment er unjusti- fed use ot force, |g. :. ple from the Thi, oft veoth Wards, refuting t mide that “a cop is a co d policemen who have }Won the confidence of peo- He in those areas. 0°! -These policemen,~ accord-. ing to the Third and Seventh ‘Warders, have been sble to alk into the midst of an ex- ited crowd in Joseph Ave- nue, ask ‘“what’s it all about" aod with a few words and/or. ions take the heat out of: e situation © | For the moment, that is” Memories of A.C. White, Ru- fup Fairwell and the arrest a en by Tien following a Clash wit fie Fairwell and the arrest fus Fairwell and the arrest. 15 men following a clash with et a mee of the ‘Black Muslinms could provide ithe potentia) for i isioned by Mrs. Mitchell and other observers. i