Box 13, Folder 21, Document 26

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LAW OFFICES
EDENFIELD, HEYMAN & SIZEMORE

GERUAT HECHAN 310 FULTON FEDERAL BUILDING WILLIAM F. BUGHANAN

NEWELLER EN PEE ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303 OF COUNSEL
LAMAR W. SIZEMORE

ROBERT G. YOUNG

TERRY FP. MCKENNA

ROBERT E. HICKS June ery 1967 Ren
WILLIAM H. MAJOR

W. DAN GREER

MAURICE N. MALOOF
JOSEPH LEFKOFF
BENJAMIN H. OEHLERT I

TELEPHONE
521-2266

Mayor Ivan Allen
City Hall
Atlanta, Georgia 30303

Dear Ivan:

I want to congratulate you on your refusal to obey the demands
made at the whim of the self-appointed Negro leader in the
Kirkwood district, who claims to be a preacher, to wit, Hosea
Williams. He has never been elected by the people to any office.
You are the Mayor of Atlanta. If there is any discrepancy in
street work, garbage collection, or sewage disposal you have

the heads of departments whose duty it is to investigate these
matters and in the proper time, correct them.

When Hosea Williams refuses to show the heads of city departments
the reasons behind his complaints he is acting in a highly
capricious and dictorial manner.

I phoned your office once before and requested that you be told
that it was my opinion that you made a mistake every time

you went to a Negro mass meeting which is organized for the
purpose of stating their wrath against the city government for
any reason,

Any citizen should know to go to the City Hall to make his
complaint and I think it humiliates you and your office

when you go to a Negro YMCA, church, or school to talk to
Negro or white people or Israeli, Arabs, or Egyptians about
their dissatisfaction with the performance of some head of
department in their community. You merely expose yourself

to some smart-aleck Negro who gets up and makes a firey
speech condemning you and the administration of the city
government, and at such a meeting common sense and good judg-
ment are thrown out the window.

Ivan, I was raised on the other side of the tracks, with Negroes.
I have known them for over seventy years. The more you give
them, the more they demand. There is no end to their wanting.






Mayor Ivan Allen
June 27, 1967
Page Two

At one time they would ask, but now they simply demand or
else threaten the government.

The Police Department is organized to handle these young
hoodlums, and it is a mistake for you to expose yourself
to these organized riots.

I once worked for the Sanitary Department; so did my father
and my grandfather. Atlanta's Sanitary Department has
continued, and today is giving the best service that Atlanta
has received in my lifetime, and I wasn't born yesterday.

With personal regards.
Sincerely yours;
—¢ Dac dasha
WM. F, BUCHANAN

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