.NzMxOA.NzMxOA

42 Kirkland Street Cambridge 38, Massachusetts January 31, 1963 Dear Mayor Allen, We want to congratulate you on your most unique idea for furthering the progress of integration. The method you chose for enhancing this all i mportant cause is, in fact, so simple we can see why no one had thought of it befor_e . By setting up the "wall 11 in Cascade Heights you gave your bet ter citizens (both Negro and White) a common enemy, therefore causing them to put a side trivial diffe r ences, join forces, and fi ght for somet hing much more i mport a nt--the need for basic s urviva l . Whe n s uc h 'heces si ties 11 a s medi ca l aid, food delive rys, f ire f i ght i ng equ ipment, and school buses a re prevented from going their pr escribed round~ it is obvious tha t mere color di f fere n ces will b e lost i n the shuffle to r estore conditions to what t he modern s ociety is a cc ust ome d to. We exp ec t to see your wa ll in Cas ca de Heights go down in history with the importanc e of Khrushc he v ' s wall in Be rlin and Kennedy ' s blockade of Cuba . That is, just as Khrushchev f orwarded freedom by allying the freedom-loving peoples against his wall , and just as Kennedy forwarded peace by a l lying the p ea ce -lov i ng peopl e s against his blockade, you, Mayor All e n, have f orwarde d integration by allying the Negro and Whit e peopl e s of Atlanta against your wall. Again, congratulations ! Wi th our admiration, ..6~ (?_ ~-t:I.J_ Bruce C. Barthel William J. Apsit BCB,WJA/lr �