Letter to President Dwight D. Eisenhower from Frederick B. Austin Against School Integration

1911 TELEPHONE INTERNATIONAL TRADERS GUILD - 18001 you *********** CABLE ADDRESS FROSTIN FREDERICK B. AUSTIN Export and Import 31. Weymouth Street QUINCY 69, MASS. OCTOBER 10 57 U.S.A. PRESIDENT DWIGHT D, EISENHOWER WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON D.C. HONORABLE SIR, Altho Intergration may be accompolished by force and the Persecution of thewhite children of Little Rock Arkansas, I think it one of the most disgraceful acts I have ever known in the United States I live in what is termed the middle bracket and see more of what goes on then the people do that lives in the higher bracket, as you do Intergration never aught to have been permitted even in the northern states Mr. President, you are judging people as man to man and you dont see the most disgraceful situations that exist amongst the lower class of living, caused by intergration, altho mutual is it an honer to see white women living with negros raising familys with some children white and some black, Mr President, it is bad enough to have intergration by mutual consent but when the Supreme Court & the Government of the United States use force against the will of the white children of the U.S., ; it is tearing down all the good prestige you have created all over the world and the United States Mr President, I am only one amongst thousands that realise the seriousness of the situation in regards to Intergration laws we have to have but there is some that should be eliminated from the records Mr, President I BEG of you for the sake of the white children to request the removel of the colored students & the troupes from Little Rock, at once Mr President, you & your administration have done more to improve conditions in the United States then any before you BUT unless intergration is stopped at least untill a peaceful solution can be reached, the country will be worse offthen when you took office again Mr President I beg of you to act at once in behalf of the white children of Little Rock Arkansas THANK YOU I AM HOPEFULLY YOURS Andrid Frederick B, Austin B. and