Box 19, Folder 12, Complete Folder

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313 DECATUR FEDERAL BUILDING / DECATUR, GEORGIA / TELEPHONE 373-2257

September 30, 1966

Mayor Ivan Allen
City Hall
Atlanta, Georgia

Mayor Allen:

Your statement on the nomination of Lester Maddox stands an ever-
lasting monument to bad taste and is an affront to any person with
a shred of decency and fair play. This man was elected by no one
but the people of Georgia. Congratulations on doing more than per-
haps anyone else to put Lester in the White House while maintaining
your own position as winner and still champion of sewer level poli-
tics.

Yours very truly,

POPE H,.-FULLER, ARCHITECT



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September 30, 1966

Mr. Ivan Allen
Mayor the City of Atlanta "Black Power"

City Hall
Atlanta, Georgia

I am writing not only for myself but for all the white
people in Atlanta.

More power to LESTER MADDOX who the white people will ©
support.

We don't think he is what you and your negro friends
Sam Williams and Leroy Johnson said over WSB, September 29,
1966. I am sure that what you said about the thousands that
voted for Maddox did not help you or them any, it just pro-
moted more votes for Maddox in the November election. One
thing SURE that I know is that neither my friends or myself
are as stupid as you say.

As Leroy Johnson said if we elect Maddox it would turn
the clock back to 1850, well, we are going to sure try.

Let's turn it back to 1850, at that time our Mayor would
have supported the white people and not make a spectacle of
himself in the public, radio or TV with "Black Power". Instead
he would have been attending to his duties as a Mayor or be at
home with his family and not standing on top of cars and getting
up in the middle of the night to parade with "The Black Power".

I think you are a disgrace not only to the City of Atlanta
but to the white race.

GOD help you because before it is over with, you are SURE
going to be needing help.

A registered voter and a
native of Atlanta, Georgia
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September 30, 1966

Honorable Ivan Allen, Mayor
City Hall

Atlanta, Ga.

Dear Mr. Allen,

From your quoted comments of yesterday it is
evidently impossible for you and your friends to
realize that there is a majority of Georgians who
in all good conscience think different than youe

You all have already had more to do with
nominating Lester Maddox tan anyone and if you
stupid bastards don't keep your big mouths shut

you are going to surely as Hell elect him governor!!



Wallis Hardeman, Jr.


WILLIAM S. McGUIRE
273 TENNYSON DRIVE, N.W.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30318

September 30, 1966

Mayor Ivan Allen
8700 Northside Dr., No. We
Atlanta, Georgia 80805

Dear Sirs

I was surprised snd appalled at the
statements made by you relative to the victory
of Lester Maddox in the Democratic Primary.

Do you not believe in the Democratic
processes?

As much as I would hate to have Lester
Maddox as the Governor of this state, he could be
no worse as such than L3J in his position as
President.

And the climax of your statement, to
the effect that the Seal of this state has been
tarnished by the nomination of Maddox, is that
instead of doing something about it in November
you are going fishing.

This sounds like you would not lift
a hand to save a drowning brother. If by virtue
of your supporting Callaway in the November
election under these extenuating circumstances
you would be ostracized by the Democratic Party,
IT suggest you find another party. /

Yours veny vty,

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T. BLAKE JACKSON

ATTORNEY AT LAW



523-7274
225 STANDARD FEDERAL SAVINGS BUILDING

ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303

September 30, 1966

Mr. Ivan Allen, dr.
3700 Northside Drive, N.W.
Atlanta, Georgia 30305

Dear Sir:

Perhaps this should be addressed simply "Gem Clip Allen" if a man is to

be accorded the sobriquet of the product he peddles, although it is my
understanding that your family feels that you couldn't sell even gem clips.
I join thousands of others in feeling that your performance on television
last night was about the most disgusting, undignified, irresponsible,
nauseating, unstatesmanlike and unwarranted act that could be performed by
the supposed mayor of a great city.

Although I am not a Maddox supporter but am actively supporting the Republican
candidate for Governor of this great State, Mr. Maddox deserves that prefix to
his name, and you have lowered yourself still further into the gutter by re-
ferring to him as "Drumstick Chicken Maddox". I believe that Mr. Maddox is
absolutely honorable and that his vocation is an honorable one, as is your
father's. As a matter of fact, I believe that even Mr. Eugene Patterson will
contede that he (Mr. Maddox) served good chicken at a reasonable price. Can
you say that you have done anything as worthwhile?

I concur with Mr. Maddox in his televised statement that your utterance
appeared to be that of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, so that I wonder
whether you collaborated on your statements. If you, too, feel that you are
now ashamed to be a Georgian, you, too, are invited out.

I felt that Mr. Maddox made a tremendously more restrained, intelligent and
statesmanlike appearance than you, even though your TV technicians attempted,
at one point, to make him appear foolish by technically reducing his
statement to gibberish.

Sincerely,

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T. BLAKE JACKSON

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Charles Edward Roberts
i 718 College Street
: Macon, Georgia

7-29-66

Hon. Ivan Allen
City Hall
Atlanta, Georgia

Dear Sir:

I just heard your post-election statement on the
7 - 7:30 CBS news. I could not believe my ears.
You are an educated, intelligent man, and those
words could have come from the lips of a fool.

Before you throw this in the wastebasket, if it

is brought to your attention, let me hasten to

say that I did not vote for Mr. Maddox in the pri-
mary two weeks ago nor in the run-off yesterday.
He is not my choice in November, I will vote for
Mr. Callaway.

In my opinion, Callaway will not be elected, however,
if you and others to whom the viewers are exposed
continue to make such vituperative remarks toward
Maddox. The same thing could be said of the lead
editorial in this morning's Atlanta Constitution.

I'm sure if would be hard to find a class in reverse
psychology", but if it is availabie, you should

take the course. Lester Maddox couldn't have picked
up fifty thousand additional votes any easier.

It is certainly your right to be a sore loser, but
why use that right to help elect the man you so
obviously despise politically. I would have thought
you smarter than that. Of course, editorial writers
have long fanned the flames for those they are
egeinst. They will never learn.

Hope the fish will be biting November 8th!

Cr very truly,

& Z (Kotz
Chas. E. Roberts, Wr.
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4441 Music Street
New Orleans, La.
September 29, 1966

Mayor Ivan Allen
City Hall
Atlanta, Georgia

Dear Sir:

I am certain that the overwhelming majority of
responsible Southerners shared my revulsion at your
vicious castigation of Lester Maddox after his primary
victory. The one transcendent lesson we should have
learned during the past half-century is that an ag-
gressor or "bully" camot be appeased indefinitely.
That holds true whether the pacification is made on
an individual, city, state, federal, or international
level. You have tried to "finesse" a solution to the
Miegro excesses, apparently bemused by the spurious
idea so widely propagated by the "pinks", "reds", and
socialistic "do-gooders", that the negro unrest is
due to discrimination, ignorance, and economic in-
security. THAT IS UNADULTERATED HOGWASH! During
the depression here in New Orleans major crime in
New Orleans was virtually limited to bootlegging,
an occasional bank robbery, and murders committed
within the Mafia itself. Now, as a result of the
insane rulings of the Supreme Court and the coddling
of inveterate criminals, no white woman can be secure
in her home, in her automobile, in her office, ina
hospital recuperating from illness, or even walking
from the bus or street car to her home. The negro
rapist is emboldened by the knowledge that he will
receive the benefit of the best legal talents which
such organizations as the American Civil Liberty
Union can furnish and will probably be pardoned, even
if convicted, because the jury did not have the precise
mixture of whites and negroes. A friend of mine who
owns a service station has been robbed by negroes four-
teen times within the past five years and shot twice.

Whether such provecateurs as King, the lynx-eyed,
fork-tongued Mounteagle alumnus, carried a Communist
card, is academic. The point is that he is helping
the Communist cause and will ultimately preside over
the flaming destruction of this nation unless leaders,
such as yourself, cease capitulating to his demands.

I enclose copy of letter which I wrote to one of
our federal judges here six years ago. My views are
identical today. I pray that the good people of Georgia

are shaking off their lethargy.
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