CORE

CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY

A national organization with affiliated local groups working to abolish discrimination by direct, nonviolent methods

38 Park Row

New York 38, New York

COrtlandt 7-0408

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Roger N. Baldwin

Algernon O. Black

Allan Knight Chalmers

Grenville Clark

Earl B. Dickerson

Eugene E. Frazier

Harold Gibbons

Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn

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 11, 1960

Miss Patricia Stephens

Leon County Jail

Tallahassee, Florida

Dear Pat:

I have written all my letters to you. I hope that you are able to share them with the fellows as well as the girls, but I am not sure this is possible.

Twice on the telephone, I have asked Mr. Haley to have you or each of you write us about what you would like from the money which Jackie Robinson and his friends have collected. Today. the lady called and said she thought she had sent as many or more books than would be wanted as well as plenty of cigarettes. It occurred to me that, if Tallahassee CORE is still suffering financial stress, and if the personal needs of each of you is being met, you might want to ask that some of the remaining money (I do not know how much is left) from the Jackie Robinson fund be sent to Tallahassee CORE. If so, you may write me, but it would be better for you to write Jackie Robinson directly. Do let me know, however. I do not feel I can suggest this to him myself, and I do not know what any of you would most like. But they are anxious to use the money for those still in jail as they want it.

Your Spirit of sacrifice was mentioned very effectively by Leonard Holt in a TV appearance last evening (NBC, Chet Huntley). Today. I had a phone call from someone interested in writing all of you letters. The CORElator asks for letters too. but it has been held up and will not be mailed until late this week.

The office work is getting worse and worse! We work overtime almost every day but cannot get caught up. But that is nothing to the contribution to the cause which you are making.

Sincerely, 

[Signature] James

James R. Robinson Executive Secretary

P. S. I shall send Mr. Haley a copy of this letter together with a contribution to Tallahassee CORE which came in today.