An expression of concern over the fact that anti-Semitism was injected into the conflict over desegregation of American public schools, as ordered by the Supreme Court, was voiced here today with the release of a report on the segregation problem by the National Community Relations Advisory Council.
The report, dealing specifically with incidents in Washington, Baltimore and lower Delaware where adults and high school students attempted to sabotage the desegregation issue, was sent to Jewish communities in an effort to obtain information and views on the subject, particularly from Jewish communities in the South.
In a letter accompanying the report, Milton Goldstein, chairman of the NCRAC Committee on Discrimination in Educational Institutions, said that Bryant W. Bowles, who heads the anti-desegregation National Association for the Advancement of White People, was resorting with increasing openness and violence to anti-Semitic appeals.
Representatives of community organizations in the cities where the disturbances occurred met in Washington to consider the significance of the riots and what could be done to deal with them. Among other recommendations made by this conference, the NCRAC report said, was a call to clergymen of all faiths, together with businessmen, civic leaders, professionals, veterans and other groups of the population to rally to the support of the authorities in the case of further troubles of such a nature.
The conference also urged national religious organizations, virtually all of which have taken stands supporting desegregation, to launch educational programs to prepare people for moves in their community to comply with the Supreme Court ruling. It also urged the authorities to explain well in advance their plans for desegregation and to deal speedily and firmly with any disorders.
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