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831-39 N. W. 21st TERRACE
MIAMI 37, FLORIDA
September 8, 1966
Honorable Ivan Allen, Jr., Mayor
City Hall
Atlanta, Georgia
Dear Mayor Allen:
Perhaps your secretary informed you that I called your
office today at which time I talked with her about the
recent rioting in your city. I should have perhaps made
my call person-to-person in which case I could have had
the pleasure of speaking to you personally.
As I told Miss Robinson, I am a native of Virginia, but
have been in Florida since 1938. I take the Jacksonville
Times-Union paper in order to read something except slanted
news since we have only two papers here which are both
liberal and ultra liberal, particularly the Miami News which
will not even use the word Negro if it can be avoided. Its
editor, one Bill Baggs is a champion of the "Reverend" Martin
Luther King, in fact he wrote only recently a glowing tribute
to King which was slightly nauseating to this writer. As you
probably know, this Negro recently met in a downtown hotel
in Chicago with a group of Negro ganster leaders among which
were the leaders of The Vikings, The Vice Lords and some others
I do not recall at the moment and these gang leaders where ex-
horted to intensify their activities in Chicago and apparently
what they did is having its effect. This Negro Carmichael who
was on hand when your trouble started in Atlanta is not quite
as subtle a King is, but nevertheless King's socalled nonviolent
activities are rank hypocracy. This is bad enough, but when the
Vice-President of the United States condones what The Untouchables
are doing and he has done just that for he said that "If I were
in the same position I would do the same", or words to that effect.
Mayor Allen, you are to be congratulated in showing restraint
under these circumstances, but I am/satisfied that the restraint
of most people in this country is wearing extremely thin and I
know full well that if all responsible people of our country do
not get their backs up and put some statesmen in Congress instead
of yesmen for Lyndon Johnson, then we can expect more of the same
and worse. /
Cordia ay
Df poremee™ TO CONFIRMATION"
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