Box 19, Folder 19, Document 109

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1836 Dyson Drive
Decatur, Georgia
August 4, 1963

Honorable Ivan Allan
Mayor of the City of Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia

Dear Mayor Allen:

Just a note to express our appreciation for your forthright
stand in testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee last week.
You made it clear, indeed, that a public accomodations law would
clarify the situation to a great extent for both businessmen and
their publics. But we commend even more your stand on the morality
of the issue -- your voicing that there is a right and wrong in
this matter, and your willingness to take - your stand despite the
possible political liabilities.

One dissent: remember what happened in school desegregation
because of "all deliberate speed". Any period of grace which might
be attached to the legislation must have a definite and not-—too-
distant compliance date included, or we stand open to witnessing a
delaying spectacle like that ROgARAENE the schools over the past
nine years.

Sincerely yours,

James H. Laue




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