Box 20, Folder 1, Document 133

Box 20, Folder 1, Document 133

Meyor’ Ivan Allen, Jr.
Atlenta, Gao

Dear Mr. Mayor:

We are not impressed with the letters you are getting
agréeing with you on your stand on Civil Rights - and
your testimoany in Washington. We were not surprised
at or will we be surprised at anything you do since
you were elected by the negroes and you bought them
to elect youe Another man was elected by the white
people. All of this is facts and many of. your friends
know all this and will nevertell you. You are like

- many people whose best friends won't tell them what

'¢ they should know. You are not impressed with anybody
“but yourself. You belong to the group who does not

know that you don't know. There is some hope for a
person who knows he doesnt know everything and is willing
to listen - but you are not in that class. You can't

see your short commingse You will never see them - there
is no hope for youe There is no hope for the white
people in Atlmta for the negroes will continue to

elect people like you.

4ny City which will have its recreation department
employ nice white girls and make them teach negro

men to swim is bownd to get wodse before it gets better
The Recreation Dept. says that if those girls refuse

to teach negro men to swim that they will not have a
job. These grils need jobs. This must be Russia.
Would you want your daughter, daughter in law or grand
daughter to be teaching negro men to swim??????? What
is going to happen is that Atlanta is going to get
worse than Wsshington in less time than Washington got
the way it is. Nine yrs. ago Pres. Isenhour put out an
Executive order that there wouldbe no more seggregation
in Washington. Look at Washington today. Not safe for
a white person to be on the street inthe day time much
less night. Atlanta will go faster and worse because
of a Mayor like you. The crime here is bad enough

now - just give it another year under you end it will
not be safe for white women to be on the streets alone
here day or night. Negroes have beentrying to buy
real estate in your immediate neighborhood - they would
have bought it if the owner had not taken the property
off the market but that won't be for long - because
they will send a white person to buy it who will be
buying for the negro. Then will you stand.up and say
take your grief to the ballot box. Wait until some of
your family is raped - will you say that the people of
your area are unduly alarmed and you will do nothing
about it. The tax payer under you has no choice except
to accept your directive.

Some ym of your so called best friends don't agree
with you.

It will be just’ too heart breaking when you get a bi€
family of negroes next door or across the street from
you. Dawid think it can't happen to you. You can't be
for other people taking it and not be willing to have it
in your section. You are not better than the people in
the Payton Rd. area you just have more money and can buy

more votese

Wake up Mr. Allen before it is too late.

Mrs. John Paul Jones,
Atlanta's Northside