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Deepening Crisis Fears violence as racial tensions rise in 1963
The article surveys warnings from Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and other leaders about a potential eruption of racial violence across the United States in 1963. It cites clashes in Danville, Cambridge, and New York, forecasts of where violence might occur, and calls for urgent action from civil rights figures, unions, and government officials amid a heated integration debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyndon B. Johnson
America
Danville
Cambridge
New York
Kenneth Clark
New York University
Chicago
Ralph Helstein
United Packinghouse Workers
University of Chicago
South
Wade
Sixth Avenue
Harlem
Alvin Prejean
The
Urban League
Birmingham
Earl Brown
Manhattan
Louis E. Martin
Democratic National Committee
Detroit
Brown
James H. Meredith
NAACP
J. H. Jackson
National
Liberty
Roy Wilkins
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Martin Luther King Jr
Whitney Young
CORE
James Farmer
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
John Lewis
A. Philip Randolph
Negro American Labor Council
Kennedy
Congress