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THE ATLANTA SUMMIT LEADERSHIP CONFER ENCE . . __., .. - . The Honorable Ivan Allen, Jr., Mayor City of Atlanta T~: ~ -: From: ! ' i •. .Subject: The Atlanta Summit Leadership Conference, A Coordinating Coalition of Atlanta Organizations and Community Leadership. Primary Sponsors: ·NAACP, Opera ti on Breadbasket, Atlanta Negro Voters League, All-Citizens Registration Committee and ·· ACCA. Summit Co-Chairmen: Jesse Hill, Jr., .Rev. $. W. Williams and Alderman Q. V. Williamson . State of Our City and the Negro Community, special requests and concerns. Presented by Special City Affairs Committee. Our Committee is here to reaffirm its interest and confidence in __ ,__ _ t_h~ __{ut_ure __gf _Atlanta and to express our desire to share in the responsibility of its continued growth and greatness. It is our desire and intention to share at all levels and in all arease This morning we wish to make the following requests and express concerns indicated: .I. / ,.-1 . II. Special Requests - A. The appointment of a Negro to Deputy Staff level in the Personnel Dept., under General Sutherland» and the hiring of a Negro Recruiter. B. An Equal Employment Opportunity clause with in enforcement provisions in all City Purchasing Contracts. C. The immediate desegregation of the Main Library staff and the desegregation and merit promotion of personnel in branch staffs. D. The hiring of Negro Housing Inspectors. E. The hiring of Negro Judges in the Traffic and Municipal Courts not as Ad Hoc Judges but regular Judgeship statu~. F. The Installation of an Information Desk ·in lqbby of City Hall. G. The revival of the City's Equal Employment Opportunity Committee, formerly headed by the late Alderman John A. White, and included the late Attorney A. T. Wolden and Clarence Coleman. ' H. Second Request for a list and description including · purpose and top staff of all federal funded or assisted programs of the City of Atlanta. This request was made
many. months ago shortly after Mr. Dan Sweat was named to
his current position •
Ho~sing Urban Renewal, Modei Cities .
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Our Community and our City Government are on a "collision ·
course" in Urban . Renewal, Housing the prop~sed .Model - Cities
Prog~am • . We have already informed· yo~ of our ·endbrsement
of our community po siti on on Housing as setforth by the
NAACP through President A. M. Davis.
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We take this opportunity to inform you of our endorsement of the
proposals submitted by Rep·. John Hood on "Model Cities" including
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immediate action for changes in the Executive Board.
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We also request
that the Planning Fund Request, Technical Advisory aoard be revised to
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include our suggestion for Negro experts to be included (plus other
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job categories).
Urban Renewal
The Negro Community has seen Urban Renewal too often implemented
as "Negro Removal".
We also see it as business and sizable financial
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transactions, where representatives of our race have been excluded
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other ills in Model Cities, and Housing cause Atlanta to lose the Negro
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Community support of all Federal HUD Programs, a strong united complaint
from our community to HUD Secretary Robert Weaver requesting a h.a l t in
HUD funds for Atlanta.
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The crucial case in point is the Rockdale Project. (Alderman
Williamson will explain our position) where a Negro church, Union
Baptist is the sponsor, a Negro architect and Negro agents are pri. maril y tnvol ved.
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In view of the evils and discrimination uncovered by Alderman
Williamson recently in the City Construction Department, we request a
survey or investigation of all city departments. The investigating
staff should include representatives of the Equal Employment Opportunities Committee and the City Human Relations Commission.
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We also request a summary report of involvement of Negroes in .
the City Government (staff and policy) and a summary report of the status
of compliance of Atlanta with the Civil Rights Law. Negroes are still
. receiving public accommodati?p insults in our city.
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· Park Facilities
We request a Crash Program to correct the many years of discrimination in the location of park facilities and the quality of park
facilities ~nd golf courses in our city.
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Status of Alderman Q. V. Williamson
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The Atlanta Summit Leadership Conference Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr Page 3 May 10, 1967. . ... . .. , • ,t I . I However, we note that you have appointed every one i-n his tenure class or older to charimanships of committees but him. In the case of Hugh Pierce he has a chairmanship and a vice chairmanship. Mr. Williamson has neither a chairmanship nor a vice chairmanship. We suggest that he be considered as chairman of the Equal Employment Op- . portunity Committee to succeed the late John White as a beginning to correct this situation • . __, ,, ..',,. ~ �
