The Augusta Courier

Sit-In Exhibitions
Of
Negroes And
New
York
White
Woman

Atlanta
Churches
Done For
Purpose Of
Creating
Friction

Bonnie Kilstein
And The Attack
On Segregation At
Episcopal Cathedral

The City of Atlanta, on Sunday, August 7, 1960, witnessed a dress rehearsal of what it has coming to it in September.

A group of Negroes attempted a sit-demonstration in six of Atlanta's leading churches.

They traveled under the name of the Student Committee on the Appeal for Human Rights.

These so-called Negro college students, from all over the United States, descended on six Atlanta churches. They hit the First Baptist, Druid Hills Baptist, First Presbyterian,

St. Mark's

Grace Methodist and the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Philip.

March on The Churches

About twenty-three Negroes and two whites engaged in the march on the churches. They arrived late at each one.

At the First Presbyterian and St. Philip's Cathedral, they were seated and evidently accepted with open arms.

At Grace Methodist the Negroes approached in two groups from different directions and met, according to plan, at the front door. They ignored ushers who told them the main auditorium was full and entered the foyer.

When they saw that the main auditorium was full, they went down to a Sunday School classroom equipped with speakers. In this room, they refused to sit together, but scattered out among the white people.

Baptists Said No

At St. Mark's Methodist, chairs were set for them in the foyer.

They did not obtain admission to First Baptist or the Druid Hills Baptist Church.

At one church, they were offered seats in the balcony and refused. In another, they were offered opportunity to sit in a room in the

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basement and watch the sermon television, and refused.

The chairman of the ushers at First Baptist Church stated that marchers were "just a bunch of agitators."

Negroes' Dander Gets Up

At one of the churches, when were asked, on account of the over to sit in a Sunday School room, or the Negroes insolently replied. can't have fellowship there.

This group was led by a Negro named Lonnie C. King, who has been the leader in the sit-down movement in Atlanta and by a white girl recently married to Atlanta from New York City by name of Bonnie Kilstein, who has a student at New York University

Miss Kilstein is a 25-year-old blonde. She came to Atlanta about three months ago when she was hired to act secretary to the Episcopal Society Cultural and Racial Unity in Room at 50 Whitehall Street, S. W., Atlanta

Received Communion

Miss Kilstein has the habit of dating Negro men and she took communion at the Cathedral of St. Philip with of her Negro boyfriends on this particular Sunday.

The name of the Negro boy who took communion with Miss Kilstein Frank James, a student from Philadelphia Smith College at Little Rock.

This Bonnie Kilstein is reported to subscribe to the doctrine that the Negro is the Divine Image carved ebony."

One thing is certain and that is this group did not make this mass attack upon the churches of Atlanta the purpose of worship. They went the sole purpose of agitating and creating all of the confusion possible.

Sacrilegious Conduct

As a matter of fact, many people think their conduct was and is sacrilegious.

After the services, these so-called students began to hand out handbills to the members of the congregation they came out of the churches.

This Negro, Lonnie King, and girl, Bonnie Kilstein, are the leaders this assault upon Atlanta.

In the issue of THE AUGUSTA COURIER of August 15, 1960, we carried a story stating that numerous of these radical organizations in Atlanta a mass attack on the City of Atlanta had spent the whole summer planning in September.

Army of Four Thousand

sitting in in this summer's planning Some of these marchers have this demonstration in the Atlanta churches was a dress rehearsal small basis as to what Atlanta may expect in September.

four thousand Negro college students They boast that they will then to do their marching for them and are going after sit-in demonstrations every possible area of community activity in the City of Atlanta