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Louisville O,urier..Journal 9/10/66 Tl1e Quality Of Leadersl1ip l11 Atla11ta REJECTING the easy and superficial course of outraged denunciation, Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr., of Atlanta is reacting sensibly and constructively to tl1e recent racial disorders in his city. While condemning Stokely Carmichael and (. his cohorts for their role in the r ioting, the .. Mayor conceder! that the substandard Jiving C.Q!!ditions in the Ne~ro area where the outbreak occurred would be a fertile field for agitation by anyone. ·, · The city, he said, "must assume the respon) sibility of housing, education, and employment opportunities for many' of these dis~ advantaged people, and in Atlanta we have _; ~ ccepted this as our responsibility." The _Mayor also made it clear that he fa vors passage of the civil-rights bill now before Congress with an even s!!:_onger open-housing . provision than it contains iti1ts present form. • With this kmd of lead~ ould continue to show the way to racial accommodation in the Deep South. The r ioting in Atlanta came after a policeman shot a Negro sought in a car-theft case. Thtl policeman's judgment, in this instance, r is open to question, but t he use that Carmichael and his lieutenants made of the incident br ings Carmichael's judgment into even m'ore serious question. The evidence is strong that he provoked the violence, and to what purpose? Mr. Carmichael, it is becoming increasingly clear, is a liability to the civil-rights movement. His purposes are undefined and his aggressions unfocused. His tiresome chant of "black power" is dangerously provocative and he has yet to defi ne what it means in the context of his operations. Dr. Martin Luther King, on the other hand , continues to speak in accents of reason. Commenting on the Atlanta Ol.ltbreak, Dr . King said: " It is still my firm conviction that a riot is socially destructive and sc,lf-defeating ... (but ) . . . while condemning riots, it is just as important to condemn the conditions wh ich bring riots into being." This is virtually the same position t hat Mayor Allen takes, yet Mr. Carmichael implies that Mayor Allen is a racist. If he is, then so is Dr. Kiug, an<I Stokely Carmichael is going to have a hard time selling that idea. �