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'Instrument Of Justice'

He the instance of a Negro
whom he defended in Birmingham.
"A white police force; white
judge, white district attorney, white
attorney, white jury, segregated
rest rooms and segregated paddy
wagon faced the man," he said.
"Convicted and given the death
penalty, he went to a yellow,
integrated electric chair, the only
instrument of justice from which
Negroes were not systematically
excluded."

"When you're born and reared
in the South you don't go to the
court house." Mr. Morgan then
asked why the "white liberal asks
the Negro to take his problems
from the street to the courts."

"The white liberal must understand
the Negro revolution. The
Southern Negro can see progress;
the Negro ghetto dweller can't.
White people have got to start
talking to white people."