Terror in Miami as a result of the wave of dynamitings of Negro homes and Jewish communal buildings “is at least as intense as that caused by the Nazis’ first forays from the beer cellars of Munich, ” Stetson Kennedy, prominent writer, reports in an article in the current issue of The Nation.
The writer declares that “racial violence now rife is worse than anything Miami has known in the past “and estimates at a quarter of a million dollars the damage done to Negro and Jewish buildings by the last half-dozen blasts alone.
The terrorists, Mr. Kennedy charges, have received “aid and comfort” from the lenient treatment given five youths last spring despite their confessions that they had been guilty of bombings and from the “police sanction” given the Ku Klux Klan. He quotes Police Chief Walter Headley as insisting that the Klan is “an American law-abiding organization chartered by the State of Florida.”
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