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Over-reaction of police to Mothers for Dignity and Justice in Iowa

The article is titled “The Villains of Society,” written by Donald Kaul. He writes that, to the police, “the villains of American society are Welfare mothers.” His tongue-in-cheek article states that, when the welfare mothers and Charles Knox walked into the Iowa Welfare Association dinner “The diners didn’t seem to mind so much but, understandably, the police couldn’t allow such a disruption of the public order. They sent a flying squad to the Savery, alerted the off-duty shifts to be ready, notified the FBI and CIA and put SAC in Omaha on standby alert. You can’t be too careful when you’re dealing with welfare mothers…”

Date

November 12, 1969