Item
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Telegram from Jackie Robinson to President Johnson

Title of the Document
Telegram from Jackie Robinson to President Johnson
One Line Summary
This is a letter Jackie Robinson sent to President Johnson regarding the violence in Selma, Alabama.
Author
Jackie Robinson
Date Created
9 March 1965
Type of Document
Letter
Transcription
“The President
The White House
Important you take immediate action in Alabama one more day of salvage treatment by legalized hatchet men could lead to open welfare by aroused negroes American cannot afford this in 1965
Jackie Robinson.”
Related
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Provenance
Robinson, Jackie, Jackie Robinson to President Johnson, March 9, 1965, National Archives, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/jackie-robinson-lbj.

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