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Telegram to President Lyndon Johnson

                                 Floyd Patterson, former heavyweight boxing                                                                         concerning the police beating peaceful civil
                            champion, Jackie Robinson, Rev. Ralph Abernathy                                                                      rights protesters on the Edmund Pettis Bridge,

                               and Dr. Martin Luther King at the 16th Avenue                                                                                                  March 9, 1965.

                                Baptist Church, Birmingham AL, May 14, 1963.                                                                          Courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson

                           Courtesy of the Bettmann Archive, Getty Images                                                                                                Presidential Library
















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