Letter to President Dwight D. Eisenhower from Charles W. Albright Against School Integration

17 SCHUYLER DR CLARK, N.S. OCT. 14, 1957 low ack'd 11-15-57 DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER KS. PRESIDENT, UNITED STATE OF AMERICA WASHINGTON, D.C. DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: w I HARDLY know WHY I WRITE THIS To you SINCE you WILL NEVER READ IT AND ABOUT ALL I CAN HOPE FOR is my LETTER WILL BE THROWN INTO THE SEGRECATION PILE RATHER THAN THE DE SEGREGATION PILE. I SUPPOSE I WRITE I'm DEEPLY TROUBLED AND ANGRY Too BECAVE So MANY OUTSIDE AGITATORS ARE CAUSING so much FRICTION THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH. MR. PRESIDENT your way To FORCE INTEGRATION IN SOUTHERN SCHOOLS IS NOT THE way UNLESS you ARE PREPARED To occupy EVERY CITY AND STATE IN THE DEEP SOUTH; you HAVENT HIT THE "HOT" STATES AND SMALL TOWNS YET I PLEAD WITH you To LET EACH CITY, COUNTY, AND STATE SOLUE THEIR own ISSUES AT THE POLLS WITHOUT PRESSURE FROM UN- INFORMED AND DISINTERESTED PEOPLE. THE THREE SCHOOL SYSTEM IS THE BEST WAY Too HANDLE SCHOOL SEGREGATION PROBLEMS AND ABIDE By THE LAW AND PLEASE ALL CONCERNED OR OTHERWISE. I STRONGLY VRGE you COME OUT FOR, WHITE, COLORED, AND MIXED SCHOOLS. Do NOT BE MISGUIDED By PULITUAL OPPORTUN- IST. PLEASE REMEMBER SOUTHERN CHRISTIANS BELIEVE IN THERK WAY OF LIFE TOO, RESPECTFULLY yours tharled w. Allright