Letter from Edwin Strickland, "a disgusted American," to Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
Strickland would later serve as the staff director for the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace. In the letter he criticizes federal intervention during civil rights demonstrations in the South: "...with callous disregard for state soverignty [sic], you will appease the Red-ridd...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Summary: | Strickland would later serve as the staff director for the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace. In the letter he criticizes federal intervention during civil rights demonstrations in the South: "...with callous disregard for state soverignty [sic], you will appease the Red-ridden NAACP and left-wing minority groups to the extent of invading a soverign [sic] state with more troops than we currently have in Laos and West Berlin combined." He specifically mentions an incident involving U.S. Marshals in Montgomery, which "just missed being a large and bloody riot." He accuses the Kennedy administration and civil rights activists of assisting the Communists (both intentionally and unknowingly), and he points out a shift in political allegiance: "...your actions have lost the Southern vote for the Democratic Party. Without this vote in 1960, the Democratic Party could not have come to power." |
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