Box 19, Folder 13, Document 85

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Box 19, Folder 13, Document 85

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(tlate, Gsergia Kansas City, Moe
September 30 1966

that if a Negro soldier, ablebodied or wounded, wandered into
yourlunch stand from the jungles of Vietnam, you would not serve him? Even
though you know he is risking hislife to make it possible for your continued
participation and benefit from the Amrican way of life, you would not serve
him? If sosyou sre not the man I fought for in th: Argonne aid at Verdun in
1916, nor the man my two sons fought for in Europe in the 19)0's. Certainly,
_ if you are on such close terms with God as your canpign talks appear to indi-
‘cate, He mst have told you that he created all men equal. I do not telieve
he said that any one human being had thepower or authority to say that he is
better than another man, irregardless the color of his skin. We must remrber
too, that the actual worth of one human being in his chemical makeup is about
85 cents, current drug stare prices, and that goes for all human beings whether.
they be rich or poor, black or white.
I wag proud to have Negro soldiers next to me in the Argonne, and they andi
the ones fighting in Vietnam ani their families, some of them now bereaved, can
live next. door to me any time or patronize my place of busimss.

Eddie (white) Landrigan

L2th & Locust
~~ Kansas City,Missourl —
ect The Atlanta Constitution
Time Magazine ae ae : :
The Kansas City Star
The Kansas Gity Cali

Mayor Allen of Atlanta


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