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~ - - - -- - - --- In the proposed allocation of funds resulting from the eighteen million dollar bond issue submitted to the tax paying citizens by the ....-..... Board of Education in the early spring of 1966 an amount sufficient to build a Junior High School in Vine City formed a part of a contractual agreement. It was the impression that if the bond issue was successfully passed a Junior High School would be built in Vine City. In what appears- to represent a breech of contract, the Board of Education has decided to build said Junior High School on a tract of land bounded on the east by Griffin, on the west by Chestnut, on the north by Thurmond, and on the south by Spencer streets, which area is approximately a mile from Vine City, and in a community where there are less than twenty-five school age children. The citizens living in this area include many of whom are retired and unemployable, others are approaching the status of unemployability, and still others a r e beyond the long term a ge limi t. These citi zens have i nvested t he i r life savings i n wha t they ha d hoperl to be t h e i r permenant homes . The a moun t of money of fe r e d them b y t he Board of Ed- ucat ion for t he i r h omes wi ll not enable t h em t o relocate and pu rchase homes subst antially similar t o those they now occupy. In t he light of t he s i t ua t ion described ab ove , the citizens in the - ' area under consider ation have organized the mselves into a Home Owners Resi stance Campaign. They are calling upon a nd would we l c ome t he s uppor t of organizations, and concerned individual c i ti zens t o assist them i n thi s rtruggle to re t a in p ossession and occupancy of their h omes. Many organizations and publ i c spirited citizens have joined them in this struggle by adopting umnnimously resolutions in support of their effort, including the Atlanta Chapter of Frontiers International, The �Greater Atlanta Baptist Alliance, The A. M. E. Ministers Union, The Ministerial Fellowship of the C. M. E. Church , The West Side Voters League, The Membership of the First Congregational Church, and the Butler Street Baptist Church. Dr. William H. Borders of the Wheat Street Baptist Church is the Coordinator of the resistance campaign and Resident Bishop P. Randolph Shy is Associate Coordinator. In consideration of the alarming circumstances that these home owners find themselves in , it is being proposed that on this Anniversary occasion the members and supporters of the Atlanta Chapter of the NAACP adopt a resolution pledging their individual and several support to the Home Owners referred to above, and that the Board of Education be requested to revise its plan of uprooting these families and build a Junior High School in a community where the children are and i n keeping with its contractual agreement. Be it res olved tha t the citiz e ns of the Me tr op ol ita n At l anta area here assemb l ed regi s t er their concer n by approving t he senti ments herein expres sed . Be it fur t her resolv e d t hat a c op y of t he sentiments agreed upon be sent to the Ma yor of the City of Atlanta , Chairman of the Board of Aldermen, President of Atlanta Board of Education, Superintendent of Public Schools, The Atlanta Inquirer, The Atlanta Constitution, and a copy placed in our minutes for the record. Yours sincerely, ., i . ._./ A. M. Davis, MD President Atlanta Bfanch NAACP �