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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION In Reply, Please Refer to File No. New York, New York August 23, 19! Bureau 157-6-34 8 ; New York 157-892 Racial Incidents in Bedford - Stuyvesant Area, Brooklyn, New York August 2i- 23, 1966 Racial Matters (w) [pv ure au furnished the following information August 22, 23, 1966: (4) ue According to police the incidents reported are directly related to increased racial tension in the Bedford - Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, New York, in the past few days. These are not clashes between ethnic groups, but are described by police as the result of racial tension between Negroes and hates Cus) August 21 and 22, 1966 tiilowste at Skiliman and ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED and De Kel avenues, Brooklyn, HEREEY {$ UNCLASSIFIED jew Yor! : i DATES22-€0 BY.spsya sel Se At approximately 11:30 p.m., August 21, 1966, a group of Negro youths who had attended a dance heldby a group called, "Youth in Action", assaulted a white youth at Skillman and Willoughby Avenues, Brooklyn, New York, and cut him on the head J >) At 1:30 a.m., on August 22, 1966, two Negro youths, ages 16 and 17, jumped an officer, Kalb Avenues, Brooklyn, New York. According to here was | Nr no disorder and no arrests made in G L tie This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.