From Julian Bond to Director of Admissions at Yale University Law School, 3 June 1968

June 3, 1968

Director of Admissions Yale University Law School Yale University New Haven, Connecticut

Dear sir:

I am writing to recommend Mr. J. Otis Cochran of Atlanta as a student at Yale Law School.

I have been associated with him over the past five years in various civic and political undertakings. I have always found him to be courageous, diligent and honest in all of his activities.

He has demonstrated an unusual commitment to community affairs and the struggle for civil rights, probably to the detriment of his scholastic record. He has involved himself...to his credit...in every progressive movement here, but has always been guided by discretion and a militant caution.

He deserves every consideration your office can offer him. I am sure he will make the sort of student that you will be proud of, and will use his training to better his community and his nation.

Sincerely,

Julian Bond