Letters: Aug. 7, 1964

Harlem & Rochester

Sir: As one white downtown New Yorker who has grown weary and annoyed with a deluge of overblown, excited and conflicting newspaper reports on "those uptown riots," I was startled and shaken to read your Harlem story [July 31]. Your clear and unsentimental reporting on the recent events had me applauding your integrity. It was the most poignant and powerful piece of writing I've read anywhere on the subject.

NANCY R. GIVOTOVSKY New York City

Sir: As an ex-Harlemite and a social worker who has long felt that too much has...

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