In the following form letter King requests money to expand SCLC's program and to cover legal fees for student protesters and the ministers who had been charged with libel by Alabama officials.1 King asks that potential donors "think of a few of our heroic board members such as Daisy Bates, Fred Shuttlesworth, C. K. Steele, Ralph D.
On the eve of the Democratic National Convention, demonstrators marched to the convention site where they held a brief rally. King, Roy Wilkins, Adam Clayton Powell, and presidential hopeful John F. Kennedy were among those who addressed the marchers that day.
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King responds to Robinson's accusations that SCLC supporters had engaged in divisive fund-raising efforts and made derogatory comments about the NAACP.
King alerts the heads of the ACLU, NAACP, and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) regarding Lawrence Reddick's termination from Alabama State College and alleges that state officials are “seeking to halt the southern nonviolent student movement by making an example of Dr.
In a 10 May letter DeWolf, King's dissertation advisor, informed him that the Boston University Civil Rights Scholarship Fund had raised $2,500 for “any Negro or white student, who has been expelled from college for non-violent protest against discrimination.”1 King expresses enthusiasm for the scholarship fund and shares his surprise at the outcome of his perjury trial.
Dr. L. Harold DeWolf
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts
On 20 February eleven Tallahassee demonstrators were arrested and charged with disturbing the peace for protesting at a local chain store. After Judge John Rudd ordered the protesters to either pay a $300 fine or serve a sixty-day jail sentence, eight of the eleven elected jail.1 Two days after the verdict, King sends encouragement to the eight students via SCLC vice president C. K.
After Shuttlesworth's second arrest during the student sit-ins in Birmingham, King pledges SCLC's support and praises the minister's “epic making career.” 1
rev fred shuttlesworth
3191 north 29th ave
King sends a telegram to an Alabama State College student who was among the thirty-seven people arrested for protest activities on 8 March.1 Dixon, whose mother was a member of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, had attended MIA mass meetings during the bus protest.
On 24 March Gray, pastor of Philadelphia's Bright Hope Baptist Church, mailed King a New York Times article about protests on northern campuses that highlighted the role of Gray's daughter Marian, a student at Vassar College.
