The Nation - News from Feb. 3, 1987

Officials of Georgia’s all-white Forsyth County agreed to a demand by civil rights leaders to form an interracial committee to address charges of racism leveled against the county. In a letter hand-delivered to the Rev. Hosea Williams, an organizer of a Jan. 24 “brotherhood march” in Cumming, Ga., officials expressed outrage at the behavior of Ku Klux Klan members and their supporters, who hurled rocks, bottles and racial slurs at the marchers. The letter did not address other demands, including compensation for blacks who were run off their land 75 years ago.