Box 19, Folder 18, Document 78

MRS. EARL F. MYERS

5043 MAYWOOD AVENUE
LOS ANGELES 41, CALIFORNIA

31 July 63

Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr.
City Hall
Atlanta, Georgia

Dear Mayor Allen:

I read in the July 27 issue of the NEW YORK TIMES
of your appeal to Congress to pass the President's
Civil Rights bill.

I wish to congratulate you on your stand and to let you
know that many of us "northerners" share the view that
when equality before the law becomes a reality the Ne-
gro's best friend will be found below the Mason-Dixon
line.

I particularly liked your expressed views on the
Supreme Court. I, too, have a schoolgirl's reverence
for the Court and believe that in our present civil
rights struggles legislation must lead the way for
the expanding heart and the opening mind.

Knowing full well how your hands must be filled with
the exigencies of your high office, nevertheless I am
brash enough to hope that perhaps I may have the
pleasure of hearing from you sometime in the future.

Again I salute you. When that happy dawn breaks when
racial strife in the United States will be a thing of
the past, you and your worthy neighbor Ralph McGill, can
well bask in the ensuing sunshine.

Sincerely,

ee Wwe eel
Marye Myers