New York’s Attorney General Nathaniel L. Goldstein served notice today upon the National Association of Attorney Generals that he has refused accommodations at the hotel selected for its annual convention next month in protest against that establishment’s discriminatory guest policy.
Mr. Goldstein is scheduled to preside at a panel on juvenile delinquency when he convention opens December 8th at Camelback Inn in Phoenix, Arizona. He wrote Attorney General Eugene Cook of Georgia, association president, that while he would attend the convention, he would not register or live at Camelback because “I could not retain my self-respect as an American and as an individual if I condoned is apparently hypocritical policy.” Instead, Mr. Goldstein will seek accommodations in another Phoenix hotel.
His charge of a “hypocritical policy” was a reference to conflicting statements from Camelback’s management. The hotel first promised Attorney General Ross Jones of Arizona “a change in our policy.” Later, it advised the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith that “our policy in guest selection will remain the same as it has been in the past. “
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