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September 25, 1969 for information call 750 - 9101 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
I will be happy to put the integrity of the firm of Frontiers Ulimited, Inc., up against Senator Richard Brevard Russel's any time. That is, if we can find a room in his own home town in which we could all even stand side by side, unsegragted.
All Senator Russell had to do was ask me for a copy of any of the documents. Unfortunately, the distinguished Senator, the Southern servant of the white poeple of several generations does not, has not and appraently can not bring himself to have any personal relationships with Negro political leaders even in his own home state.
Of course the entire matter is one which directly relates to the relaxtion by the Nixon administration of racial integration enforcement policy in the South. In short, men like Senator Russel and others have been turned loose.
It is interesting to see that Senator Russel has joined in concert with Congressman Blackburn and Thompson in seeking to dictate the operation of the office of OEO. These Atlanta area congressmen have been in their disinterest in the plight of the poor they represent and notorious in their insistence that the small amount of progress Black Georgians have made be reversed under the Nixon-Thurmond adminstration.
Congressman Thompson's displeasure at the membership of Frontiers Unlimited is directly related to the activites of the Atlanta Branch of NAACP whose president, Lonnie King, has insisted that Congressman Thompson stop encouraging the Fulton County Board of Education to behave in an unlawful manner.
Aslo, if Senator Russel needs an explanation of community action work, I will be happy to provide him with one. Perhaps that would change his vote on appropriations which have consistently made him a spokeman for war, racial segregation and against the poor.
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