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September 10, 1966 Mayor Ivan Allen Atlanta, Georgia Mayor Ivan Allen: I wholeheartedly protest the injustice and illegal arrest of Stokely Carmichael of Student Non- Viol ent Coordinating Committee. You, along with the newspapers have joined in another trick to try to fool the general bl ack public, but this trick no:b any other will stop t he bl a ck people 's revelution . If police brutality, slums, poverty condition 's, and t he general expl oitation of the Negroes t her e in Atlanta, the citi zens protest of police arre sts which is termed a riot would never have occured, but t his protest and furth er protests will continue on a mass scale because of the i nhw-nan treatment of the black people all over America. Whether it is Ca r michael or whoever it may be t hat speaks out the truth in behalf of t he bl a ck pe ople , it is what every black person feel s wmthin his heart. A feeling that will cont i nue until every black person i s fre e of all injustic·es that he is being subject ed to unde r whi te power , and Car michaels arrest is just a nother one of these injustices, the denial of fr ee speech. Mayor Alle n, t he f i ght will continue, the feelings will continue, t he prot e st s will continue and who knows all the rest that wi ll continue unt i l t he day comea when all black peopl e are abl e to be fr ee of the condit i ons that are force d upon us by the white power structure. However , n~y it be emphasized here that you have added a fuel to t he spark and stronger bounded the bl a ck peopl e ' s effort' s in t heir revolution. Lorrine We st �