Pages 1 and 2. Letter (10/4/62) from Bayard Rustin to JFK appealing for the President’s assistance in the case of an elderly conscientious objector who had refused to pay taxes after the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and who was now destitute because his social security payments had been cut off. (2 pages) 

Page 3. Leaflet appealing for people to participate in the March on Washington [courtesy of The Bayard Rustin Fund]. (1 page) 

Page 4. March on Washington program at the Lincoln Memorial, 8/28/63 [courtesy of The Bayard Rustin Fund]. (1 page) 

Pages 5 and 6. Telegram (9/24/63, 5:06 p.m.) from Bayard Rustin to JFK, urging the President to send troops immediately to Selma, Alabama where 1400 people in the First Baptist Church were surrounded by local and state police and fearful for their lives. (2 pages) 

Pages 7 and 8. Second telegram (9/24/63, 9:24 p.m. ) from Bayard Rustin to President Kennedy demanding federal intervention in Selma against "HUNDREDS OF ARMED WHITES DEPUTIZED BY LOCAL SHERIFF WHO HAS BROADCAST CALLS FOR LOCAL ABLE BODIED MEN TO CONVERGE ON CHURCH WITH OWN WEAPONS OR THOSE HE PROVIDES." (2 pages)