Civil Rights: End of the Road?

The responsible civil rights movement, which has accomplished much for the Negro in the 1960s, today faces a crisis of survival. Powerless to quell insensate violence in the slums, its leaders are equally helpless in the face of rising white impatience with riots and those who incite them. The plight of moderate Negro leadership was demonstrated anew last week. Items:

> In Atlanta, white Socioeconomist Dr. Robert Theobald told concerned and dispirited delegates to the convention of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference that "the civil rights movement is dying...

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