Daisy Bates Speaks Against Slow Pace of Integration

Comments prepared for broadcast over WLIB Radio in New York City.-2- In the State of Florida, a petite 72-year-old white woman of New England aristocracy --- Mrs. Malcom Peabody, helped to ignite the spark of freedom in the hearts of men when she joined 200 Negro youths in a freedom march to imprisonment. Mrs. Peabody realized that ehe same chain which binds the Negro in Florida, disrupts ther freedom of action in Massachusetts. She acknowledges the fact that it takes more than mere ob- servance of forms and proprieties to plow up a nation's heart and saw the seeds of true and lasting greatness. Only deep and abiding faith in our democracy enabled the young freedom fighters to endure the soaring stings of water channeled into the stream of hate, torturs of dungeons, and the painful bites of vicious dogs. 1964 represents a historical challenge to you, to me, and to every American. The outcome of this challenge depends on WHAT we do this election year! We must respect the young---revolutionists, or demonstrators ---call them what you will or may, for theri fervent zeal for fight- ing for which they believe--- freedom and dignity for all mankind. -more