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- , 1965
Mr . Bill D. Moyers
Assistant to the President
The ·white House
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr . Moyers :
I was greatly distressed at the report of my Sunday sermon
in the WASHINGTON POST this morning. The notice was brief, but
was plainly and simply
- of voter registration in
Dallas County, Alabama, where of the 30,000 persons of voting age, 9,000 of the registered
are white and only 600 are Negro.
He concluded, "The time has come to remove these stumbling blocks
that deny Americans their Constituttional
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PRESIDENT LYNDON B JOHNSON
WHITE HOUSE WASHIC
URGE IMMEDIATE FEDERAL ACTION TO PROTEST LIVES AND CONSTITUTIONAL
RIGHTS IN ALABAMA
MRS JAMES FARMER 165
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Creighton made a foolish statement yesterday about the
civil rights situation. He left this morning at seven
o 1clock for a funeral in New Jersey and will be back
this evening. Bill~axter and I will see him this evening
or tomorrow. When you get a chance
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TO: Honorable LeRoy Collins
Under Secretary of Commerce
Sheraton West Hotel
Los Angeles, Califonnia
The agreement on a new community action agency for Los Angeles
and Los Angeles County outlined in your telegram to me meets
the requirements
- conclusions drawn from it.
II.
NARRATION OF MISSION
After receiving the assignment the afternoon of
August 17, the next morning I conferred with Mr. Joe
C~lifano and Mr. Lee White in the White House.
There
the nature of the mission was established.
Two major
- ... maybe Ramsey
Clark who was out here before or someone else.
As an example, the city and county and state are willing to do
a lot of things but they need to be worked into existing measures
The morning papers carry a statement that the City of Beverley
- and to visit skill centers and adult
training centers. His views would interest me greatly and would
bear on my final judgments of the progress being made in our negro
districts.
The violence -of Detroit seems to indicate a new phase of
the negro problem
