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July 30, 1963
Mayor Ivan Allen
Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
68 Mitchell St. S.W.
Atlanta, Georgia
Dear Mayor Allen:
Just want you to know that I, along with many other
Atlanta Citizens, disagree very strongly with the views
which you expressed in Washington recently before the
Senate Hearing Committee regarding the Civil Rights
Issues. I certainly do not feel that your expressions
represent the feelings of the majority of the citizens
of Atlanta. I voted for you in the last election but after
intergrating the Atlanta swimming pools and parks, instead
of closing them, and after expressing the views which you
did in Washington I don't feel that I could vote for you.
if you were running again today. As you know the views
which you expressed are contrary to the views of several
Atlanta organizations and among them being both the Senior
and Junior Chambers of Commerce.
It seems inconceivable to me that anyone could feel
that our Government Authorities should have the power to be
able to tell me and other business people that they must
accept as customers any who express a desire to do business
with me. I have the right to determine which merchants
I shall do business with and by the same token I feel that
any businessman should have the privilege to decide who shall
be his customers and who shall not be his customers.
Yours Poets “ma. : Devito
ie M. ee: Jr.
2884 Arden Rd. N.W.
Atlanta, 5, Georgia