Letter dated August 3, 1961 from Roy Wilkins to JFK during the Berlin crisis regarding "the fact that in a goodly number of states the National Guard is closed to Negro citizens" and urging that "appropriate steps be taken without delay to insure the inclusion, on a non-discriminatory basis, of all citizens in all aspects of the spiritual and physical mobilization you have ordered."
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John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, Massachusetts
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Letter dated August 3, 1961 from Roy Wilkins to JFK during the Berlin crisis regarding "the fact that in a goodly number of states the National Guard is closed to Negro citizens" and urging that "appropriate steps be taken without delay to insure the inclusion, on a non-discriminatory basis, of all citizens in all aspects of the spiritual and physical mobilization you have ordered."
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July 30, 1962
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, Massachusetts
Public domain