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In April, 1965, a local official of the NSRP in Jacksonville, Florida, © demanded that two Negro police officers be removed from their traffic assignments - in the downtown area of that city. The NSRP official actually attacked one of these police officers, who restrained himself when he saw his assailant was a white man. The Police Department then threatened the NSRP official and his associates with arrest in the event.of any future interference. B. Advocacy of Violence | The public activities and publications of the NSRP are fraught with: dire warnings that the "invisible enemy" manipulates the officials and policies of the United States Government and is causing the entire American fabric to rot and fall apart. A portion of the "States' Rights Manifesto" adopted by the NSRP in its August, 1958, convention asserts: "All States Righters, in accordance with Amendment two of the U.S. Constitution that ‘the right of the people to keep and bare arms shall not be infringed, ' should there- fore arm themselves so that they will be able to defend their families, homes and rights from political despots who are inciting violence on our once peaceful communities." A readiness for violence is thus counseled in the manifesto of this group of racists. Moreover, Fields and his officials have made numerous inflammatory public statements at NSRP meetings which could possibly incite some listener to precipitate an act of violence. For instance, on the evening of July 15, 1965, the NSRP held a rally at the Calhoun County Courthouse in Anniston, Alabama, at which one of the speakers reportedly advocated killing - 30-