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GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ATLANTA . GEORGIA 30332 September 7, 1966 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH Mayor Ivan Allen City Hall Atlanta, Georgia Dear Mayor Allen: Si tting comfortably in a chair after breakfast, I read. about the trouble yesterday--the two first page stories in the C01iSTITUTI ON and Mr. Patterson's superb editorial built mostly around your words and deeds. As a moderately active liberal, I am saddened by the incident; it should not have happened. Yet it was a s mall affair wh en compared with Watts and similar outbreaks in northern and western cities. Atlanta's. image as a soutre r n c ity which manages to handle its pr oblems i s not seriously dama ged9 You had some help from the police and from sensible ne gro leaders. But it was your coolness,courag e, and resourcefulness which saved the day. Yesterday you won a Cong ressional Medal or its equivalent, and you also achieved t he p ersonal stature in the minds of whites and colored which will enable you deal ef f ectively with the issues which remain. Ch eers and cheers for the Mayo r! Res p ectfu lly yours, Edward Foster P rofessor of Eng lish �