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Volume 3: Birth of a New Age,
December 1955-December 1956

Transcriptions are intended to reproduce the source document accurately, adhering to the exact wording and punctuation of the original. In general, errors in spelling, punctuation, and grammar have been neither corrected nor indicated by [sic].

To Jesse Hill, Jr.

8 May 1956
[Montgomery, Ala.]

Hill, an Atlanta Life Insurance Company actuary, collected donations from fellow workers and sent them to the MIA through his company's Montgomery office.

Mr. Jesse Hill, Jr.
Acting Actuary
Atlanta Life Insurance Company
148 Auburn Avenue, N.E.
Atlanta 1, Georgia

Dear Mr. Hill:

This is to acknowledge the tremendous contribution you and the very fine people connected with your organization have made.

Mr. McHaney forwarded a total of $1,019.87 to this office to be used in our struggle for justice in the present situation here in Montgomery. Please know that we are deeply grateful and will long remember your coming to our aid. We are enclosing a receipt to cover this amount. Please express our gratitude to all person responsible for this wonderful contribution.

Sincerely yours,

M. L. King, Jr.,
President

MLK:b

enc. 1 receipt for $1,019.87
(Dictated by Rev. King but transcribed in his absence.)

TLc. MLKP-MBU: Box 14.

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