Box 19, Folder 18, Document 98

Box 19, Folder 18, Document 98

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

PITTSBURGH 13, PENNSYLVANIA

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE

July 28, 1963

Mr. Ivan Alan, Jre
Mayor
Atlanta

Dear Mayor Alans

It was with a great deal of interest and pride that I
read of the testimony which you delivered in support
of the President's civil rights package.

I was born and raised in the South —=- Atlanta and
south Texas — and am only temporarily absented while
I am doing my doctorate. I have become of late quite
sensitive to the crying lack of moral leadership which
seems so prevalent in certain of the southern states.

I think that there does exist a sizeable group of
intelligent leaders who are willang to assess this
problem and its consequences in long range terms.
However, up to now, it almost seems as if this group,
if they do in fact exist, have abdicated their res-
ponsibility.

Your actions in the past, and your verbal affirmat~
ion of this policy last week, have renewed my belief
that "the intelligent southerner", forthright in ex-
pression, does exist.

sha

Je Thomas May
Room /226
Social Science Program