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Box 17, Folder 1, Document 102
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IRVING L. GREENBERG, M. D.
REGINA GABLER, M. D.
SUITE 105 MEDICAL-DENTAL BUILDING
950 W. PEACHTREE ST., N. W.
ATLANTA 9, GEORGIA
January 3, 196
Mayor Ivan Allen
City Hall
Atlanta, Georgia
Dear Mr. Mayor:
As one of your long time admirers and supporters, as well asa
proud citizen of Atlanta for some 50 years, I feel it incumbent
upon me to drop you a note concerning Atlanta's "Image" which I
found on a recent trip to Florida from which I returned on New
Year's Day. I was there at the time the National radio and
television commentators reported on the "Buffer Wall" set up in
Atlanta.
While I realize that my information concerning the events which
lead to this action come only from newspaper reports, and while
making no claims to knowing what is best in solving this and
other similar problems in race relations, I can report without
equivocation that this action has caused the "Image" of Atlanta
to suffer enormously in the minds of the people with whom I came
in contact during a ten day period.
For the first time in a great many years I found myself on the
defensive with relationship to actions of "my town" and I must
say I found it very unpleasant. While I have not always been able
to feel proud of the actions of our State Government, I have not
found it necessary to "explain", with embarrassment, action that
our "City Fathers" have taken. I have always in the past felt that
the spirit was positives; a spirit where progress was being made.
In this situation, I must say that whatever the merits of the
action taken, the action itself appears to me a negative one and
not in keeping with the spirit so often pronounced by our beloved
Mayor Emeritus, "Bill" Hartsfield: "We don't have time to hate in
Atlanta - - - Welre too busy making progress",
I trust this letter will be received in the spirit in which it is
being written - that of sincere concern, because of a deep love
for Atlanta, its history and its future.
My best wishes to you for a healthy, happy and progressive 1963.
Sincerely and fraternally yours,
Brg Lo. Pen Veng
Irving L. Greenberg, M.
ILG/hf
REGINA GABLER, M. D.
SUITE 105 MEDICAL-DENTAL BUILDING
950 W. PEACHTREE ST., N. W.
ATLANTA 9, GEORGIA
January 3, 196
Mayor Ivan Allen
City Hall
Atlanta, Georgia
Dear Mr. Mayor:
As one of your long time admirers and supporters, as well asa
proud citizen of Atlanta for some 50 years, I feel it incumbent
upon me to drop you a note concerning Atlanta's "Image" which I
found on a recent trip to Florida from which I returned on New
Year's Day. I was there at the time the National radio and
television commentators reported on the "Buffer Wall" set up in
Atlanta.
While I realize that my information concerning the events which
lead to this action come only from newspaper reports, and while
making no claims to knowing what is best in solving this and
other similar problems in race relations, I can report without
equivocation that this action has caused the "Image" of Atlanta
to suffer enormously in the minds of the people with whom I came
in contact during a ten day period.
For the first time in a great many years I found myself on the
defensive with relationship to actions of "my town" and I must
say I found it very unpleasant. While I have not always been able
to feel proud of the actions of our State Government, I have not
found it necessary to "explain", with embarrassment, action that
our "City Fathers" have taken. I have always in the past felt that
the spirit was positives; a spirit where progress was being made.
In this situation, I must say that whatever the merits of the
action taken, the action itself appears to me a negative one and
not in keeping with the spirit so often pronounced by our beloved
Mayor Emeritus, "Bill" Hartsfield: "We don't have time to hate in
Atlanta - - - Welre too busy making progress",
I trust this letter will be received in the spirit in which it is
being written - that of sincere concern, because of a deep love
for Atlanta, its history and its future.
My best wishes to you for a healthy, happy and progressive 1963.
Sincerely and fraternally yours,
Brg Lo. Pen Veng
Irving L. Greenberg, M.
ILG/hf
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