Alabama race riots: Ed Murrow interview
Alabama race riots: Ed Murrow interview; 2.
ENGLAND: London:
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CS Ed Murrow (Edward R. Murrow) (United States Information Agency [USIA] Director): SOF:
- (Lead in Q: Is the crisis in Birmingham one of hope or despair?) "I don't think it is one of despair, I think it is an indication of gradual, very gradual of progress. For example, I was in Little Rock two weeks ago, which it is acting quite normally, race relations have improved very considerably, it was a very unusual practice for me to use United States troops in order to insert one young man, into the University of Mississippi. The position was made more difficult in Alabama, because there is a lack of dialogue between the blacks and the whites. There is no Ralph McGill for example, as there was in Atlanta, and is also probably exasperated by the fact there is a higher rate of unemployment in Beckimer and the towns surrounding Birmingham, but I think it is indication of some progress".
- (You speak of progress, but this is yet one of your problems, but when there is bad news out of the United States, the outside world considers it news, when there is good new they think it is propaganda from the Murrow office?) "Yes, well this is in part true, in the first place, we report, not only through the voice of America, but through our wireless, we report incidents of racial conflict and violence, we make no effort to suppress them. We do try to put them into their perspective, in the sense we indicate what the municipal state or the Federal Government has done to rectify the situation. We try to make it clear, that these incidents are in fact isolated and are contrary to our law".
- (In Birmingham itself, the black efforts are still controlled by men that we considerate as moderates, such as Martin Luther King, are they pushed increasingly towards violence and also are they going at some extremist elements ahead of the black Moslem movement. How serious a danger is this?) "I don't consider myself, the ...
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13 May, 1963
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