Garnet to Random House letter June 1965 searchable text

Random House

New York City,

New York

                                                          ___________

Gentleman,

                                      In your advertisement in the Sunday New York

TIMES for Robert Penn Warren’s WHO SPEAKS FOR THE NEGRO?, you

identify Lolis Elie, “New Orleans lawyer for the NAACP.”  This is incorrect,

for as Mr. Warren notes on page nine of his book, Mr. Elie is (and has

been for some years) CORE’s lawyer there, and indeed the mainstay of

CORE’s entire legal program in the south (along with his partners Collins

and Douglas).

                                      I would hope that in future advertisements for

this excellent book that Mr. Elie would be correctly identified.

                                                          Yours truly,

                                                          (signature)

                                                          Alan Gartner

Alan Gartner

92 Magazine Street

Cambridge

Massachusetts

          XEROXED FOR WARREN YOUNG  6/10/65

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                                                                   5¢ POSTAGE

GARTNER

92 Magazine Street

Cambridge, Mass

                                      BOSTON, MASS.

                                               AM

                                           8 JUN

                             RANDOM HOUSE

                             PUBLISHERS

                             NEW YORK CITY

                             NEW YORK

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