Races: The Difference

After Chicago broke out in a summer rash of racial violence last month (TIME, July 28), Mississippi's Representative John Bell Williams, voicing the views of many segregationists, piously asked why Attorney General Robert Kennedy had not sent U.S. marshals to Chicago, just as he had to Alabama when the Freedom Riders first headed south.

Last week, in an interview on Atlanta's station WBS-TV, Bobby Kennedy gave Segregationist Williams a blunt explanation for the difference in the Justice Department's reactions in Chicago and Alabama. "They are making an effort in Chicago to deal with the problem," he said. "The police are not...

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