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P.O. Box 772
Atlanta 23, Georgia
August 1, 1963
Honorable Ivan Allen,jJr.
Mayor of Atlanta
City Hall
Atlanta,Georgia
My dear Mayor Allen:
I was quite pleased to read in the morning newspaper
that the mail was running 2 to 1 in favor of your stand
on the Administration's Civil Rights Bill. I1 would like
to add another letter in support of your stand.
A native Georgian,,I am white as are the four other
men in my office. I can speak for all of them, as I do
for myself, in owr support of your position on the afore-
mentioned bill2 We are not for "socialism" anymore than is
the membership of the Chamber of Commerce, and feel as strong-
ly about the preservation of free enterprize as anyone, but
but too many businessmen either lack the courage or the sense
to exercise their full responsibility to the:community. Thus
we share your opinion that we need the law to ensure respon-
sibleiaction,
Many Atiantans have been very proud of their Chamber of
Commerce and their newspapers in their handling of the
racial situation. But this pride has been tarnished by
their lack of support of the ciwil rights bill, It is their
action that strongly points up your argument that we need the
law to keep from backsliding,
Oh, what words of hate will that hypocrat from the Pickrick
have for you this Saturday!
My salute to a true Christian and American with the courage
of just convictions, a Mayor that Atlanta can be damn proud of,
Bibles O, Waastn
Baidwin B, Hansen
Sincerel