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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0367-006
Materials in this folder include telegrams, memoranda, a newspaper article, and correspondence between President John F. Kennedy, various members of the White House staff, and individual citizens concerning public safety, civil rights demonstrations, and racially motivated violence in Birmingham, Alabama. The folder also contains resolutions passed by the Alabama House of Representatives commending Governor George Wallace’s actions and a written statement by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. sent to religious leaders from a Birmingham jail.