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Boston, Georgia September 10 , 1966 Mr. Ivan Allen, Jr - Mayor City of Atlanta City Hall Atlanta, Georgia Dear Sir: It seems that the chickens have come home to roost. You and your Atlanta papers have catered to the Negroes in order to get the bloc vote. You sowed the wind and you are now reaping the whirlwind. These Blacks asked and asked and you gave and gave. I have a widowed friend who lived in the East Lake Section of Atlanta in a lovely home valued conservatively at $15,000.00. Negroes moved into this area and she, being alone, wa s afraid to continue living in her home when the Negroes 'broke' the color line. She could have sold this home s e vera l years ago at a nice profit but ha d to (and was lucky to do soJ sacrifice her home for $9,000.00 thus losing a good amount of an already scant estate . It se ems that the othe r night you saw your great mi stake and had the courage , which I admire, to denounce the very thing that you had advocated and abetted . You, Ralph McGill, Eugene Patterson and others of your kind are solely responsible for what is now happening in Atlanta . Yours very truly, f ~J_ ~ /J}\ ltd {vyuA- t ~DEN W. ADAMS ~ J. · �