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9, 1966. The Riot in Atlanta .~n artificially induce d riot involving a few hundred SUl?Ceptible Negroes shattered th e calm of an Atlanta aftrernoon, and it may have sha ttered much more. There is no way of gauging f ully its effect on a S'ou therh community that had been deservedly considered a m~del in race relations. Particularly dismaying was the abusive treatment accorded Mayor Ivan Allen J r . when he r ushed to the scene and tried to calm t he rioters. They had been wliipped to frenzy, reportedly by the so·called Student Ndnviolent Coordinating Commit tee, espouser of the separatist arrd inflamma tory slogan of " black power." ~uch was the mood of t he mob, h astily r ecruited after a Negro suspected of stealing a car had been wounded while fleeing from police, t hat ~ayor Allen was jarred from the top of a police car and subjected to a barrage of bricks, bottles and verbal abuse as he courageously stood his ground a nd tried vainly to re Jore sanity. This was an ironic reward for one of the f ew Southern officials who supported th e Civil Rights Act of 1964. 'J;o the degree tha t S.N.C.C. in its new militancy was responsible for this viol ence, it has done a gross disservice to t he evolution of r acial harmony and t he pr~gress of the Negro in At lanta a nd elsewhere in the South. �