Box 19, Folder 3, Document 45

Box 19, Folder 3, Document 45

Boston, Georgia
September 10, 1966

Mr. Ivan Allen, Jr - Mayor
City of Atlanta

City Hall

Atlanta, Georgia

Dear Sir:

It seems that the chickens have come home to roost. You
and your Atlanta papers have catered to the Negroes in
order to get the bloc vote. You sowed the wind and
you are now reaping the whirlwind.

These Blacks asked and asked and you gave and gave. I

have a widowed friend who lived in the East Lake Section

of Atlanta in a lovely home valued conservatively at
$15,000.00. Negroes moved into this area and she, being
alone, was afraid to continue living in her home when the
Negroes 'broke' the color line. She could have sold this
home several years ago at a nice profit but had to (and was
lucky to do so) sacrifice her home for $9,000.00 thus losing
a good amount of an already scant estate.

It seems that the other night you saw your great mistake and
had the courage, which I admire, to denounce the very thing
that you had advocated and abetted, You, Ralph McGill,
Eugene Patterson and others of your kind are solely responsible
for what is now happening in Atlanta.

Yours very truly,

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