Box 19, Folder 18, Document 92

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e]_) The Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity

| ROOM 200, 5 FORSYTH STREET, N.W., ATLANTA 3, GEORGIA e JACKSON 5-7975

July 26, 1963

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The Hon. Ivan Allen
City Hall
Atlanta, Georgia

Dear Mr. Allen:

Just a brief word -not requiring any
acknowledgement from you- to thank you for your testimony
today in support of the President's Civil Rights legis-
lation. Rest assured that there are many white Atlantans
as well as Negroes who are proud of you and grateful for
your leadership,

On another subject, I hope that the day
here has passed without the arrival in Atlanta of threatened
obstructionist demonstrations of the lying-down-in-the-street
variety which we are beginning to see elsewhere, particularly
in the North. Such were considered by Negro student leaders
I understand, While supportive of direct action protest of
the now more traditional sort, and having been involved in
such in various situations, I do not think that the diffused,
non-directed, and, as I call it, “obstructionist" type of
protest is needed or effective, If I can be of any service
anytime in setting this perspective forward, as one who has
himself bee¥n involved in direct action otherwise, I shall
be happy to be available.

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The Rev. John B, Morris

Executive Director “

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PSALM 133


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