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Minute Women of the U.S.A. March on Montgomery -- The Untold Story

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09641.16 Author/Creator: Minute Women of the U.S.A. Place Written: Los Angeles, CA Type: Printed document Date: 30 March 1965 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 35.4 cm, Width: 21.5 cm Order a Copy

One circular letter dated March 30, 1965 regarding the March on Montgomery. Contains a speech by Alabama Senator Dickinson recounting events during the march that he believed was obscene and lewd. Dickinson claims that "an all-night session of debauchery within the church itself," took place the evening of the march.

Beck, Ed, fl. 1965
O'Dell, Hunter Pitts, 1925-
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Dickinson, William L., 1925-2008
Moscowtiz, Paul, fl. 1965
Braden, Carl, 1914-1975
Berry, Abner, 1902-1987
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987
Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972
Prussion, Karl, fl. 1965
Peck, James, 1914-1993

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