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-.•J. .J..V v v ,. , .,. l 1 0 1t\.. ..,, 1,,.l ...u \d,.'- 1 lt • . , l. J .1. . l', ... i~ l ' .,. l.~ , 1 there is no si gn )'et that the railroad unio;~~ have achieved comparable enlightenment. \\"; . :...... lanta's Mayor Speaks occas ions the orate t :c:nl fo i; on Ca pitol Hill is pierced by a voice resonant with courage and dignity. Such a voice was hea rd i· wh en ~Iayor Ivan Allen Jr. of' Atlanta testifi ed ·n before the Senate Commerce Committee in supn port of President Kenncdy,'s bill to prohibi t racial discrimi nation in stores, restaurants and otj1c.>r public accommodati ons. l· On the basis of the very subst,rn t ial accom:s plishments that his city of a hal(-milli on, the II' largest in the Southeas:, has made in desegregating publicly owned and privately owned facili. ,e ties, he might have come as a champion of

n "states' rig hts" and of the ability of localities

,e to banish discrimination without Federal la w. ,1 Certainly, he would have had much more warrant to espouse that view than the Barretts, t he Wallaces and the other arch-segrco-:1.tionists who r aise the specter of Federal "usurpation" id as a device for keeping Southern Negroes in subjection. , n· But Mr. Allen was not in Washington to boast. ne He was there to warn th at even in cities like 'T• Atianta. the progress that had been made might it, be wiped out if Congress turned its back on the . is Kennedy proposal and thus gave impli ed endorsement to the concept that private bnsihcsscs· were free to di scrimin ate. He left behind this cha rge to finish the job started with the Emanci pation Procla~ation a century ago : "Now the

s, elimination of segregation, which is slavery's

st stepchild, is a challenge to all of us to ma kc every American free in fact as well as in theory ., .t• be - and again to establish our nation as the true champion of ihe free world." ~t. to w On rare

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