Jackie Robinson, Civil Rights Advocate

Jackie Robinson was sickened, as so many other Americans were, by events in Selma, AL where marchers--including women, children, and clergy--were clubbed, resulting in several deaths and many injuries.

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Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
White House Central Files
Name Files
File: Jackie Robinson
 

• Telegram to the White House
  August 13, 1957
• Letter to President Eisenhower
  May 13, 1958
• Draft letter from Vice-President Nixon
  November 4, 1960
• Letter to President Kennedy
  February 9, 1961
• Telegram to President Kennedy
  June 15, 1963
• Photograph
  August 28, 1963
• Telegram to President Johnson
  March 9, 1965
• Letter to President Johnson
  April 18, 1967
• Letter to the White House
  April 20, 1972
• Jackie Robinson Quotes