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Mr. J. Edgar Hoover Federal Bureau of Investigation ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED Washington, D.C. DATE Slals | BY 5j \ ob Dear Mr. Hoover, o4 I have just finished reading your great book, Mgters of Peceit, and feel that my congratulations toa you on your wonderful work are long overdue.You and your organi-~ . nation are our greatest assest in our fight on communism. I am greatly disturbed by events taking place all ower our country and particularly in Alabama. The northern liberals have made the situation in Montgomery a cause celebre and Martin Luther King andther Ghandi, The people there haye been extremely tolerant of his activities and the restraint that most of them have shown is to be admired. The situation here in the South is fast becoming intolerable and the ones of us who have always considered ourselves moderates and have tried to help the negro progress (in the framework of his own society) are becoming alarmed, last year I received a copy of &@ set of pictures made by a | photographer from Georgia who went to the Labor Day weekend work~ shop at the notorious Highlander Folk School at Monteagle. I am sure you have a“cgpy of the same report which was sent to me by the Attorney General of Alabama. 411 of the , peeroess or most of them, who have been leaders in the racial troubles here, were were / Rosa~Rarks of the Montgomery bus s porcott, M. Det » Gomillion of Tuskegee Institute, and xy 5 nary was sitting next to Abn errye reoniggr bound to take on the color of their ' “ _ #Ssociates and in this case it is decidedly reat 9 ly , Liha - pa ff = Ia et H i: There are very few people in the United | ates voor have an any i what the High- \, lander Folk School is or what it is doing. The northern AAS AS 1998 their rabid desire 4 a for the negro vote have evidently overlocked the red infl influence in the negro movement or L ,- have chosen to igmore it, Qe “fu 4 yo td fe nds 4G