Item
Bibliographic Resource
Telegram from Jackie Robinson to President Johnson
- Title of the Document
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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
- March 9, 1965
- Type of Document
- Letter
- Transcription
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“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
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President Lyndon B. Johnson
- Provenance
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Robinson, Jackie. "Jackie Robinson to President Johnson." National Archives, March 9, 1965. https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/jackie-robinson-lbj.