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~ UgreD STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION . SEP ~~ Philadelphia, Peunsylvania In Reply, Please Refer to File No. August 31, 1966 | NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF STUDENT NON- ‘APPEARANCE OF STOKELY CARMICHAEL, TT , — VIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE, PHILADELPHIA, PA., AUGUST 30, 1966 STOKELY CARMICHAEL, National Director of Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), arrived in Philadelphia, Pa., August 30, 1966, via bus; and in an interview. by news media he repeated SNCC's allegations that Philadelphia Deputy Commissioner FRANK RIZZO was a “racist" and framed SNCC people in Philadelphia in the arrests of August 13-15, 1966,.in which they were charged with violat- ing state law in regard to possession of dynamite. CARMICH- AEL was scheduled to appear at a-rally in the Church of the Advocate, 18th and Diamond Streets, Philadelphia, the night of August 30, 1966. Deputy Commissioner RIZZO of the Philadelphia Police Department was in command of the police department in the absence of Commissioner EDWARD BELL when the SNCC people were arrested in the dynamite case. During the interview, CARMICHAEL was asked if he were non-violent, and he is quoted as replying: "I'm stand- ing here as non-violent as you are. But if you strike me, I will kill you before God gets the news. I'm non-violent." Civil Disobedience Unit, Phila- delphia Police Department, advised that after CARMICHAEL left the bus station in downtown Philadelphia he appeared at 16th and South Streets in South Philadelphia, in the vicinity of 52nd and Market Streets in West Philadelphia, and at 16th and . Susquehanna -Avenue in North Philadelphia -throughout the after- noon, continually criticizing and castigating the Philadel phia Police Department, Deputy Commissioner RIZZO, Mayor JAMES H. J. TATE, and the City of Philadelphia as "racist." is LL RPUn gd ae CIS TAgAD con ; aR SPIO COPIES DESTROYER: i = SRA b60§0- AS 2EE.0 27 11 ENCLOSURB