ABSTRACT
A man in San Francisco made headlines by refusing to sell his home to a prominent Negro and then, in the glare of unfavourable publicity, said he had nothing against Negroes but was simply doing what he thought was agreed among his neighbours. Three policemen were arrested in Detroit for torturing and killing three young black men whom they were questioning in connection with alleged sniping during a period of high racial tension; the young men and some of their friends had been found in a suite at the Algiers Motel; there was no evidence of sniping but they were in the company of two white girls. A young man was arrested in Gilroy, California, for trying to shoot a judge whose sentencing of a rapist he felt to be too lenient; he said that the judge, who had a Jewish name, was a 'legal criminal, the worst kind', and he added, 'the Jews don't like anybody who's against the Communist conspiracy. I've been threatened morally by the Jews by being called a queer. They threatened me bodily too.'
