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“An Open Letter to the President” imploring president John

Fitzgerald Kennedy to consider issues of racial injustice:
“Without meaning to be impertinent, Mr. President, we have a
Jackie Robinson Says, “An Open Letter to the
suggestion. Why don’t you wander off from all those advisors
President” Newspaper Column, May 5, 1962.
and FBI men; wander off somewhere where you can sit down,
New York Amsterdam News, New York, NY
all alone - and think about the high cost of race prejudice -

just as you thought about the threatened high cost of steel.”

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