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Box 19, Folder 19, Document 80
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William Voigt, Jr.
R. D. 3
Mecuanicssura, Pa.
July 26, 1963
Mayor Ivan Allen
city of _tlanta
Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Mr, Mayor:
The television news reports and the newspaper
accounts of your appearance before the Senate
committee on the civil rights issue left me proud
of the city of my birth tonight.
Don't let the "junior" on my name fool you; I was
a reporter for the old Georgian-American when Bill
Hartsfield was a young alderman in 1926, I followed
his actions in preventing racial discord when he
was mayor, and liked the way he handled matters,
Now you have proved more than a worthy successor,
in my view; you've gone a step further, a long step,
Economic integration cannot be withheld any longer.
It is inevitable; it must come, Social integration
is another matter, We have no choice on the
former; we do have a choice on the latter,
This is one of the key areas of reasoning, in my
view. If it has been used in treating with the
die hards, it has not been so reported in the
press of the North, where I have lived most of
my adult years. It may be worth considering as we
painfully creep toward giving the Negro his long
overdue due, It may possibly be an argument to
use in hastening the day of equal economic rights
and treatment,
Ad WV,
William Voigt,/Jr.
R. D. 3
Mecuanicssura, Pa.
July 26, 1963
Mayor Ivan Allen
city of _tlanta
Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Mr, Mayor:
The television news reports and the newspaper
accounts of your appearance before the Senate
committee on the civil rights issue left me proud
of the city of my birth tonight.
Don't let the "junior" on my name fool you; I was
a reporter for the old Georgian-American when Bill
Hartsfield was a young alderman in 1926, I followed
his actions in preventing racial discord when he
was mayor, and liked the way he handled matters,
Now you have proved more than a worthy successor,
in my view; you've gone a step further, a long step,
Economic integration cannot be withheld any longer.
It is inevitable; it must come, Social integration
is another matter, We have no choice on the
former; we do have a choice on the latter,
This is one of the key areas of reasoning, in my
view. If it has been used in treating with the
die hards, it has not been so reported in the
press of the North, where I have lived most of
my adult years. It may be worth considering as we
painfully creep toward giving the Negro his long
overdue due, It may possibly be an argument to
use in hastening the day of equal economic rights
and treatment,
Ad WV,
William Voigt,/Jr.
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