Atlanta Daily World

Students, Klan
Demonstrate In
Downtown Area

Some Negro college students Saturday moved into the second day of efforts to desegregate lunch counters in more than a dozen downtown drug and department stores.

The student group encountered rivalry Saturday from robed and hooded Ku Klux Klansmen who threw up picket lines in front of the same stores that were hit by anti-segregation forces Friday, and again later on Saturday afternoon.

The lunch counters at four downtown stores were closed down when the students either sought lunch counter service or were spotted as they prepared to do so. The majority of the eating facilities struck Friday did not open up

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Students, Klan
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for business Saturday morning
The Klansmen came to town at approximately 10 a.m. Saturday .decked out in white robes and wearing pointed hoods. and with their leaders garbed in crimson satin. They dispersed at approximately 1 p.m. after their ranks became thinner and thinner during their approximately three-hour stay.
The Klansmen's greatest strength was noticed at one of Atlanta's largest department stores. The student group did not picket where Klansmen were marching. but after the segregationist group departed. the students moved in to surround the same store.
At 8 p.m. Saturday. there had been no reports of arrests or any type of disorder connected with the demonstrations in downtown Atlanta Saturday. Police heavily surrounded the picket areas as observers and to help unsnarl the crush of traffic in the downtown area for one of Atlanta's busiest shopping weekends.
Meanwhile. the Rev. William Holmes Borders. chairman of the Adult-Student Liaison Committee. reported Saturday morning that he had not been informed of any type of settlement in the lunch counter desegregation issue. The Rev. Borders further said that he had received no communications from Mayor Hartsfield since Tuesday. the deadline date for a truce during which Hartsfield was to have negotiated with students and merchants to attempt to effect a settlement of the issue.
Before leaving for a New York municipal bond signing mission Saturday, Mayor Hartsfield disclosed that he had not been approached at all regarding his further intervention in the controversy since the extended truce ended Thursday night.
There were reports Saturday that negotiations were still going forward in an attempt to resolve the conflict between the student anti-segregation demonstrators an d downtown merchants