Dear Pat,

I am a Freshman girl student at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. Two days ago I was visiting my girl friend at Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia. On a bulletin board I saw a list of names of Negroes imprisoned because of the lunch counter dispute. 

All my life I have grown up in the North. My Father comes from out West, and my mother from Saint Louis, Missouri. My father is a Professor of Economics at Hofstra College, L.I., and my Mother is a Professor at Adelphi Colleg, also on L.I.

Because I have been instilled with liberal traditions and have grown to love Democracy, I am in complete empathy with the Negroes' cause in the South. There is an interesting article in the N.Y. Times magazine Section (April 3, 1960) about your fight for equal rights. If you haven't yet, I recommend that you read it. I know that [it] has helped me to better understand the social turmoil of the South.

You probably are very busy, but if you have time I would appreciate hearing from you, first hand, what your thoughts and feelings are on segregation. Also, on what grounds were you imprisoned?

Oberlin College raise $1,000 for Nashville. We even had a girl from Atlanta, Georgia, going from door to door to collect money. So, you need never feel that you are alone. There are many Whites in