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WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Mayor Ivan Allen commenting that African Americans are locked into poverty by discrimination, Atlanta, Georgia, 1968 March 1

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In this WSB newsfilm clip from March 1, 1968, Atlanta mayor Ivan Allen, Jr. comments on the published findings of the U.S. National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders.The clip begins with Allen speaking at a press conference, where he projects the city's future use of state or federal aid awarded for the implementation of recommendations established by the U.S. National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. He emphasizes that the city will "do everything that we possibly can to assure that there will be complete law and order in this city during this coming summer as well as subsequent years." A reporter comments "There are a lot of poor white people in America, and the report, of course dealt with Negro rioting." He then asks "Do you think there is a danger of the poor whites being forgotten in our concern for the Negro?" Allen responds that he thinks that although the report focuses on rioting in African American neighborhoods, it also recognizes the problem of poverty in America as a whole. He then defines what he considers to be the differences between white and African American poverty. "Of course the difference between white poverty and Negro poverty is white poverty has always had the opportunity to move out of the area of poverty, whereas by segregation and discrimination the Negro in the past has been confined legally, by laws almost, into the area of poverty. There was the difference between having hope and opportunity, and having hope and opportunity denied...
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Allen, Ivan, 1911-2003
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Keywords

  1. African American Neighborhoods
  2. African Americans
  3. Atlanta
  4. Atlanta (Ga.)
  5. Cities And Towns
  6. Civil Rights
  7. Demonstrations
  8. Discrimination
  9. Economic Aspects
  10. Economic Conditions
  11. Federal City Relations
  12. Federal Government
  13. Forecasting
  14. Georgia
  15. Government
  16. Government Aid
  17. Government Policy
  18. History
  19. Human Services
  20. Mayors
  21. Municipal Government
  22. Opportunity
  23. Political Aspects
  24. Political Violence
  25. Politics And Government
  26. Poor
  27. Poor African Americans
  28. Poor Blacks
  29. Poverty
  30. Prejudices
  31. Press Conferences
  32. Public Welfare
  33. Race Discrimination
  34. Race Relations
  35. Race Riots
  36. Reporters And Reporting
  37. Research
  38. Riot Control
  39. Riots
  40. Segregation
  41. Social Conditions
  42. Social Conflict
  43. Social Policy
  44. Southern States
  45. United States
  46. Urban Policy
  47. Urban Poor
  48. Violence
  49. Whites

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