Box 19, Folder 18, Document 92

Box 19, Folder 18, Document 92

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ROOM 200, 5 FORSYTH STREET, N.W., ATLANTA 3, GEORGIA

July 26, 1963

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The Hon. Ivan Allen
City Hall
Atlanta, Georgia

Dear Mr. Allen:

Just a brief word -not requiring any

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acknowledgement from you- to thank you for your testimony
today in support of the President's Civil Rights legis-

lation.

Rest assured that there are many white Atlantans

as well as Negroes who are proud of you and grateful for

your leadership,

On another subject, I hope that the day
here has passed without the arrival in Atlanta of threatened
obstructionist demonstrations of the lying-down-in-the-street
variety which we are beginning to see elsewhere, particularly

in the North.
I understand,

Such were considered by Negro student leaders
While supportive of direct action protest of

the now more traditional sort, and having been involved in
such in various situations, I do not think that the diffused,
non-directed, and, as I call it, “obstructionist" type of

protest is needed or effective,

If I can be of any service

anytime in setting this perspective forward, as one who has

himself beej
be happy to be available.






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involved in direct action otherwise, I shall

The Rev. John B, Morris