Tequesta : Number - 50/1990 - FIU Digital Collections

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46 TEQUESTA Epstein, met with Governor Warren to confer about a statewide program to halt the violence. Epstein recommended a survey of local areas to determine racial or religious tension and a project, at the community level, to combat the "basic issues of racial and religious hatreds." 32 On November 30th, Carver Village was bombed for a second time. As February approached, with no further bombings reported, Miamians began to calm down. But, the recent violence had not been forgotten. F.B.I. agents continued their investigations while officials laid the groundwork for a proposed Dade County Council on Community Relations. The Council, composed of leading white and Black Miami citizens, set as its objective a community-wide effort to better
The Carter Village Controversy 47 relations between racial and religious groups. In New York, The Americans Protesting Florida Terror suggested an "Americanism" educational program for Florida." In Washington, D.C., Representative Heller proposed a federal law carrying a penalty of death for acts of violence inspired by racial or religious prejudice. In addition, Senator H. Alexander Smith of New Jersey asked for an immediate report by the F.B.I. on the recent wave of terrorism in Florida and for a determination by the Justice Department on the adequacy of federal laws. 34 Finally, on October 6, 1952, over a year after the first bomb was set, Attorney General James P. McGranery asked a federal grand jury to review the evidence gathered by the F.B.I. concerning Carver Village bombings. McGranery stated that he believed "there have been violations of the Civil Rights statutes...and other federal laws." 35 The jury thought that the testimony on Carver Village would take approximately three weeks. The first witnesses to testify were the F.B.I. agents who had investigated the possible civil rights violations at Carver Village. The jury also ordered twelve other witnesses to produce all records of the John B. Gordon Klavem of the Ku Klux Klan in Hialeah. On December 9, two months later, the federal grand jury returned indictments against fourpeople; three men and a woman: William G. Orwick Harvey G. DeRosier, Arthur F. Udgreen, and Mrs. Helen Russell. AL four surrendered to federal authorities after being indicted for pel jury. 36 The grand jury charged William Orwick, a linotype operator i Miami, on two counts of making false statements pursuant to th Federal Employees Loyalty Program and to the provisions of thi National Security Act of 1947. Orwick told F.B.I. agent Melvin Jett that he had not been a member of the Ku Klux Klan since 1946 and that he had no knowledge that Sports, Inc., in Hialeah, was used as a front for John B. Gordon's Klavem. Investigators showed that Orwick had been a member of the Klan during the years 19<strong>50</strong> and 1951 and that he also knew Sports, Inc., to be a Klan meeting place, because he hao attended regular meetings there. 37 The indictment against Harvey G. DeRosier, a Post Office employee, stated that he had given false statements to the Postal Loyalty Board. Apparently the Loyalty Board learned that DeRosier had beer a member of the John B. Gordon Klavem, and that through his job at the Post Office, had been assembling information concerning organizations opposed to the Klan. DeRosier denied membership in the Klan,
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