Box 18, Folder 28, Document 17

Box 18, Folder 28, Document 17

SIXTH EPISCOPAL DISTRICT

AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH CONFERENCES:
GEORGIA
ERNEST L. HICKMAN. PRESIDING BISHOP EOUTH GEORGIA
OFFICE: 94 GRIFFIN ST.. N.W. e TEL. 522-7406 SOUTH WEST GEORGIA

AUGUSTA

2 MACON
ATLANTA. GEORGIA 30314 Cr aS SO.

RESIDENCE: 1212 FOUNTAIN DRIVE. S.W.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30314
TELEPHONE 758-1693

September 14, 1966

The Honorable Ivan Allen, Jr.
Office of the Mayor

City Hall
Atlanta, Georgia

Dear Mayor Allen:

This comes to express our thanks and to congratulate you

on the stand which you have taken, as Mayor of the City of
Atlanta, in the recent disturbance in some of the sections of
our city.

As Bishop of the State of Georgia, serving in the A. M. E,
Church, with more than 40,000 members in the city of Atlanta,
I wish for you to know that we do appreciate having such an
outstanding individual as you to head our city government in
times like these,

You may rest assure that we are with you and that you may
call on us at any time to help in any way you may feel that

you need us,



ELH/et