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“
If at this late a date, I have to ask you your views on civil
rights, Senator, I doubt if I would understand. I seek no
”
private, privileged information which you are
unwilling to give the electorate.
– Jack Roosevelt Robinson, in a letter turning
down an invitation to meet presidential candidate
Barry Goldwater, August 1964
Jackie Robinson marches with 35,000
civil rights demonstrators who oppose the
nomination of Barry Goldwater on the eve of
the Republican Convention, July 13, 1964.
Courtesy of David S. Johnson,
Library of Congress
30 Jack Roosevelt Robinson: Patriot
