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Humphrey Pin-back Buttons, 1960.
Jackie Robinson Museum Collection
“
Negros aren’t seeking anything which is not good for
the nation as well as ourselves. In order for America
to be 100 percent strong – economically, defensively,
Jackie and Rachel Robinson meet with
Senator Hubert H. Humphrey at the and morally – we cannot afford the waste of having
Senator’s campaign headquarters, Washington second – and third-class citizens.
DC, 1959.
– Jack Roosevelt Robinson, excerpt of a column
Courtesy of Afro-American Newspapers, ”
Gado, Getty Images from the New York Post, May 8, 1959
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