CORE
Congress of Racial Equality
A national organization with affiliated local groups working to abolish racial discrimination by direct, nonviolent methods
38 Park Row
New York 38, New York
COrtlandt 7-0408
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Roger N. Baldwin
Algernon D. Black
Allan Knight Chalmers
Grenville Clark
Earl B. Dickerson
Eugene E. Frazier
Harold Gibbons
Rabbi Roland B. Gittensohn
Sidney Hollander
E. Stanley Jones
Martin Luther King
Will Maslow
A. J. Muste
A. Philip Randolph
Ira DeA. Reid
Jackie Robinson
Arnold M. Rose
Lillian Smith
Howard Thurman
Goodwin Watson
Jerry Wurf
Charles S. Zimmerman
OFFICERS
Charles R. Oldham, chairman
Henry Hodge, vice chairman
Anna Holden, Secretary
Lula A. Farmer, treasurer
James Peck, CORElator editor
regional representatives
Walter Hayes
George M. Houser
Herbert Kelman
Frank Robinson
Rev. Charles Smith
Earl Walter
STAFF
Gordon R. Carey, field secretary
L. W. Holt Esq., field secretary
James T. McCain, field secretary
Marvin Rich, community relations director
James R. Robinson, executive secretary
April 14, 1960
Dear Pat,
Thanks for your wonderful letter of April 8th. I am answering in great haste.
There is one important point that we need to know. We have calls from people who want to send something to those in jail in Tallahassee. The Jackie Robinson fund we know sent lots of books and cigarettes. We therefore do not know what to tell people to send.
If you want money forwarded to Tallahassee CORE, you and the other jailed students must write us so that we have something to show to those who want to send something. We cannot tell them to do so ourselves (they get the impression that we are interested in money for the organization and not for the individuals unless we have something from one of you which says, "Give to Tallahassee CORE").
I think you spirit is remarkable, and it is obviously having its effect on the jailers, the police, etc. More power to you.
So long,
[Signature] Jim Robinson
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