Letters: Sep. 6, 1963

Echoes of the Awful Roar

Sir: Regarding your cover story [Aug. 30] on civil rights, I think it is time somebody stood up for the poor, abused, white bigots. In pressing for their constitutional guarantees, the Negro community has every moral and legal right to sit-in, swim-in, wade-in, waitin, parkin, standin, lie-in and chain-in, but they have gone too far with the pray-in.

After all, freedom of religion is also a constitutional guarantee. Those whites who believe in a nigger-hating god have their right to pray to him unmolested.

They don't have a prayer...

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