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MILDRED GLOVER * ssprecrrce Duce 3 House of Representatives comune Atlanta Georgie 30310 Tetaphone. 404—755 3834 Atlante. Georgia STATE INSTITUTIONS 6 PROPERTY Eleemosynary Institutions TEMPERANCE. Vice Chairman UNIVERSITY SYSTEM of GEORGIA August 19, 1982 Mr. William Bradford Reynolds Assistant Attorney General Civil Rights Division U. S Nonartment af Ju it aro Pas Pe Le et Washington, D. C. 20530 iasa aCe Dear Mr. Reynolds: After a nine-week trial in early 1982, SI “’ : Z Ont £0 ERE}. Wiki WW AQ =~ ~ I Wayne Williams was gdijvictedé and sentenced for the murder of two adults in the Atlanta Gride mm killings. Subsequent to his conviction, local authoritiesSénaune that twenty-two (22) children cases which appear to be related g#puld also be closed. Not one of the closed cases was brought to trie Parents of the children, first bewildered by the investigative treat- ment given their children's murders and enraged at the knowledge that the conviction of Williams for two murders would suffice for all of them, sought my assistance for justice beyond the state of Georgia. They contend that their children were killed because they were black and that they, themselves, have been treated as second-class citizens in their effort to seek relief because they, too, are poor and black. Furthermore, their opinions are substantiated by extensive testimony in the form of written and recorded information which provide names, dates, and places suggesting a racist intent in the children's murders. - Tt fe aastinect thte haanbownuis Aa that the 246425 SESIDSt (His Cace grounGa toart tae regular and lengthy discussions of the in Atlanta. As a State Representative the children lived, or were last seen, . 7 mareantc anA T antearezAd tata Paes~Turs B@uw 2 Pye eu zulu missing and murdered children from a district where many of or were found, I consider it an important stewardship responsibility to respond to the parents in their request. After a careful study and review of the information, I am led to believe that the parents’ contention that discrimination was the It is in the parents behalf that I write this le _prese ease of discrimination in the Atlanta child kill sttoqely. the children were killed because of color. | fe _ | ie | ™ —~ th indeed. a valid one. Bute oe rf er fo, present}:: Evidence [st