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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) . reer Negroes Can’t Get ws - the National Association for White Attorneys Afraidjthe Advancement of Colored Other witnesses during Mon- ay’s- hearing included Gary ‘the client Sobol was epresenting in Plaquemines hen - was arrested, an ohn P. Nelson Jr., a New Or- eans white attorney who has en active in civil rights cases. Nelson was examined durin ast week’s proceedings but was called back to the witness stand at the beginning of court Mon- day, to conclude his testimony. *Young testified. that civil rights activities were increased in Bogalusa in 1965 by the Voters League after the Ku ment. . : : . **Their testimony came in the case of Richard B.. Sobol, a civil rights lawyers group. (Mount Clipping in Space Below) fare being given protection by Tolson-—_— TicLogch..—— . Moht——— hr. Ry Ma. Trower Tele. Room.——— Mise Uethits Miss Geady..—— ditions in Bogalusa have changed and wZights—avorkers the local police. ‘| .’ ‘BLACK POWER’ On.cross examination by Sid- ney W. Provensal Jr., attorney for Plaquemines Parish offi- cials, Young denied that he is a “Black Power" advocate. “ft am not a ‘Black Power’ advocate as such, but I believe in ‘Black Power’ up fo a point,” he said. He also denied that he car- ried a pistol when he took part: in a march from Bogalusa to Baton Rouge last summer when “Black Power" leader H. Rap Brown was scheduled to the Capitol steps. {indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) ___ PAGE 17 TIMES PICAYUNE j Klux Klan began to intimidate|speak from and harass.Negroes in the area.|- While being questioned by He said that at that time the|Cicero C. Sessions, attorney Congress’ of Racial Equality/for the Louisiana State Bar came into the picture andlAssociation, an intervenor in brought in out-of-state attorneyS|the case, Brown claimed that of the Lawyers Constitutional {Sobol is, ‘responsible for me Defense Committee to handlejand a lot of other Negroes not suite for school desegregation, tyeing dead or in Angola.” Sobol was arrested Feb. 21, 1967, on a charge of practicing Jaw in Louisiana without a li- cense as he was leaving the Plaquemines Parish courthouse after conferring with Judge Eu- gene Leon about an appeal for a Negro client who had been NEW _ , LA. convicted of battery in connec- tion with an incident near a re- cently desegregated school. THREE-JUDGE COURT On trial before a special three . fudge federal court is a suit by desegregation of public ac- commodations, and other types of litigation. : Young asserted that Negroes ‘were not ‘able to hire lawyers in Bogalusa and added, “¥ don’t NO NEGRO ATTORNEYS Wyche, a barber by - trade and active civil rights worker’ in the Madison Parish area since 1965, testified that there pre no Negro attorneys in the _ Hee of law by ookataa sf sare ane matters. [ance GEORGE aS HEALY Robert A. Ainsworth Jr., of the] The witness testified that ae in town wl do Ht these | character: CR Bronstein, whose LCDC head- “United States quarters are'in Jackson, Miss., Fifth Circuit The other said, “that would or Ss ad Court. of Appeals and District < Judges Frederick J.. R. ‘Heebe|¥as the first attorney brought kill my practice in. Tallulah,” | crassitication: kL. . and Fred J. Cassibry. to Bogalusa -by James Far-|{the witness added. Submitting Office: £ "Witnesses who gave testimony{ Mer, national director of CORE, He said that his first’ con- N.O.,LA, »: concerning alleged difficul-Jafter_ a. rights demonstration leact with Sobol and Bronstein | [_] Being Investigated : on the part of civil rights work-jhad been broken up by the!'was when he was arrested - ‘and charged with burglary _and assault in connection with his investigation of a civil rights complaint at a 24-ho truck stop in Tallulah, -. ~ orp “ers in obtaining services from]KKK. Louisiana licensed attorneys in-| Young recited a number of cluded A. Z. Young, presidentirights cases which have been _ of the Bogalusa Voters Leaguethandled by attorneysof the ‘ and-Elmer C, Wyche, Tallulah,|LCDC and asserted that be- ated Seer io :' president Of We"Ntadison Parish|cause of federal court injunc- “+ FIRST CONTACT " Voters League and a member tions ich % been ob- His first contact with LCDC { 2777. - an d by these attorneys con- lawyers, hewasseried, was in Jf, ~ :1965 when 61 civil rights work- t- FEB 9 1968 @ UF Er “TAA ers were arrested for integrat-