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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-Violent Coordinating Committee.
You, along with the newspapers have joined in another trick to try
to fool the general black public, but this trick nob any other will
stop the black people's revelution.
If police brutality, slums, poverty condition's, and the general
exploitation of the Negroes there in Atlanta, the citizens protest
of police arrests which is termed a riot would never have occured,
but this protest and further protests will continue on a mass scale
because of the inhuman treatment of the black people all over America.
Whether it is Carmichael or whoever it may be that speaks out the
truth in behalf of the black people, it is what every black person
feels within his heart. A feeling that will continue until every
black person is free of all injustices that he is being subjected
to under white power, and Carmichaels arrest is just another one of
these injustices, the denial of free speech.
Mayor Allen, the fight will continue, the feelings will continue,
the protests will continue and who knows all the rest that will con-
tinue until the day comes when all black people are able to be free
of the conditions that are forced upon us by the white power struc-
ture.
However, may it be emphasized here that you have added a fuel to
the spark and stronger bounded the black people's effort's in their
revolution.
Lorrine West
Mayor Ivan Allen
Atlanta, Georgia
Mayor Ivan Allen:
I wholeheartedly protest the injustice and illegal arrest of Stokely
Carmichael of Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.
You, along with the newspapers have joined in another trick to try
to fool the general black public, but this trick nob any other will
stop the black people's revelution.
If police brutality, slums, poverty condition's, and the general
exploitation of the Negroes there in Atlanta, the citizens protest
of police arrests which is termed a riot would never have occured,
but this protest and further protests will continue on a mass scale
because of the inhuman treatment of the black people all over America.
Whether it is Carmichael or whoever it may be that speaks out the
truth in behalf of the black people, it is what every black person
feels within his heart. A feeling that will continue until every
black person is free of all injustices that he is being subjected
to under white power, and Carmichaels arrest is just another one of
these injustices, the denial of free speech.
Mayor Allen, the fight will continue, the feelings will continue,
the protests will continue and who knows all the rest that will con-
tinue until the day comes when all black people are able to be free
of the conditions that are forced upon us by the white power struc-
ture.
However, may it be emphasized here that you have added a fuel to
the spark and stronger bounded the black people's effort's in their
revolution.
Lorrine West