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A.4 Friday, January 4. 1963 THE wASHINGTON POST .Racial Conflict Stirred Up by Atlanta's 'Wall' ATLANT A, Jan. 3 (AP) come to a head-on struggle," The separation of white and said Smith, "but we stand as Negro residential sections by firm as the Mayor in our cona buffer zone of city-built victions that this insult to wood and steel barriers has Atlanta and to one-third of created a head-on conflict be- Atlanta's citizens can and tween Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. must be removed ." and objecting Negro leaders. Allen engaged in a polite In Municipal Court today, but somewhat strained verbal Negro and white opponents exchange with his predecessor of the city's "Berlin Wall" as mayor, William B. Ha~tspressed a suit to have the field, a racial moderate. Hartsfield had called the barriers removed as a public nuisance. road barriers "an awful misMeanwhile, Allen and the take" and volunteered assistNegro All-Citizens Committee ance in er ad i ca ti n g "this for Better City Planning came source of friction and bad fac~ t o face in a meeting publicity." which the M a Yo r called Allen in reply professed friendly but which a Commit- warm regard for Hartsfield tee spokesman indicated was and his opini1ms and said, " If not entirely so. the need to call on him should The mayor noted that the arise I wouldn't be the least committeemen were fi rm in r eludtant to call on him, and refusing to negotiate on the I am sur e he would be willgeneral racial come situation untiling to give help." the barricades down. A Hartsfield later told newsCommittee leader, Dr. C. A. men that his successor "has a Smith, said Allen was j ust as tough nut to crack but it determined that the r oad- cannot be done by artifici al blocks should not be removed barriers. before negotiations. I "The Negro citizen has a "We personally abhor the !right to live anywhere," he fact that the situation has now declared. , A ssoci ated Prell& This ls one of the road barriers creatm,: a racial buffer zone in Atlanta that was the object of a day-long court hearing in the Georgia capital yesterday.

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