VIOLENCE AGAINST NEGRORS AT REPUBLICAN CONVENTION from Julian Atkinson
The following extract from a New York Herald Tribune report on the Republican convention which chose Goldwater as presidential eantidnte is an indication of the violence which was used at that convention against Negroes. This violence included intimidation against Negro delegates to the convention itself:
",2eeGeorge S, Fleming, a Negro alternate from New Jersey, walked out of the Republican convention for about 5 minutes, sobbing he was , tired of being mistreated by "Goldwater people." "They call you 'Nigger', push you and step on your fect," he said, "I had to leave to keep my selfrespect." But at the urging of several others from the New Jersey delegation he returned to his seat within 5 minutes. Inside the Cow Palace, 3 men tried to lie down in front of the speakers rostrum at the end of the demonstration for..Scranton. A 27-year-old college student who shouted "I'm agains t the racism of the Republican Party was hustled out of the hall and taken in for questioning.
"Five Negro delegates walked out of the auditorium after the nomination of «Goldwater. Four other Negro delegates who remained marched down the aisle with banners saying "Wewill Remain and Fight." Negro alternate delegate William P. Young of Pennsylvaiia, a Scranton supporter, found his coat ablaze during the Goldwater floor demonstration, "This was no accident," he said later, pointing to four holes burned in his coat pocket,"