Box 19, Folder 2, Document 84

Box 19, Folder 2, Document 84

THE OLDEST NATIONAL BANK IN THE SOUTH

CORRESPONDENT BANK LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY
DIVISION
THOMAS W. GAINES VICE-PRESIDENT
JAMES S. McKENZIE VICE-PRESIDENT
CHARLES L. MOORE ASSISTANT VICE-PRESIDENT September 8 1966
WILLIAM M. RUE ASSISTANT VICE-PRESIDENT 3

HENRY D. ORMSBY, II!

Honorable Ivan Allen, Jr., Mayor
City of Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia

Dear Mayor Allen:

This letterhead is for identification purposes only,
and is not intended to reflect the opinion of this Bank or any
of it's Officers or employees = only that of the writer,

You are to be commended on the manner in which you
propose to handle any riots or unlawful disorders within your
City, as reported in our local papers. We seem to be plagued
with a very small minority who insist on causing as much violence
and disturbances as possible. They disregard the fact that they
interfere with the rights of others = that any organized society
must have law and orders

I consider it a disgrace and an affront to constituted
law, for five or six police officers to have to carry off a limp
demonstrator when he lies down and refuses to move when ordered
to do sO» I would approve of the use of electric cattle prods,
police dogs or fire hose to clear an area of sit-in demonstrators
who refuse to obey other orders. I doubt seriously if any Officer
of the law in your City can rightly be accused of one-tenth the
brutality which some of your officers have suffered at the hands
of the lawless element, It is the beginning of the breakdown of
all law and order when a police officer is afraid to make an
arrest for fear he will be mobbed. This condition must not be
allowed to prevail,

Congratulations upon the courage you have shown.

ee

C. L. Moore