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OCR Page 1 of 4P.P.F.
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Apt. 3-cc Bakers Field
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General Delivery
University, Alabama
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April 19, 1948
The President of the United States
Whitehouse
Washington, D.C.
Mr. President,
I do not question the rightfullness of what you pro-
pose in your Civil Rights Program, only the method. I do
not presume to be a statesman, nor to tell you how to run
your job. You are much too qualified. I would like to tell
you how I look at it, and how most of my friends look at it.
Naturally my viewpoint and that of my friends is biased,
for we are Southerners. We also realize that the South is
not a separate country and should have different laws, but
that we are a part of the United States, and what is right
for the Nation should be right for us. That is theory. In
reality, we are different. There's no getting away from it.
We do have a race problem, and a serious one.
After the Civil War when the Federal Government "freed"
the slaves, the sudden transition from slave to people with
equal rights upset the equilibrium of a lot of the negroes,
and the people in the South had quite a bit of trouble. It
was my greatgrandmother who was molested. It was my great-
grandfather who had to protect his housewhole from marauding
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