- Collection:
- With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty
- Title:
- John A. Morsell, Assistant to NAACP Executive Secretary to President John F. Kennedy requesting the assistance of the federal government in the case of James Meredith, September 21, 1962
- Creator:
- Morsell, John A.
- Date of Original:
- 1962-09-21
- Subject:
- Discrimination in education--United States
Discrimination in education--Law and legislation--United States
Segregation in education--United States
Segregation in education--Law and legislation--United States
Race discrimination--United States
African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
University of Mississippi
College integration--Mississippi--Oxford
Intervention (Federal government)--Mississippi - People:
- Morsell, John A.
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Meredith, James, 1933- - Location:
- United States, Mississippi, Lafayette County, 34.35675, -89.48492
United States, Mississippi, Lafayette County, Oxford, 34.3665, -89.51925
United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729 - Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Letter from John A. Morsell, Assistant to NAACP Executive Secretary to President John F. Kennedy requesting the assistance of the federal government in the case of James Meredith, September 21, 1962. In this letter, Morsell urges President Kennedy to withhold federal funds from the state of Mississippi until it complies with laws mandating desegregation.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- http://crdl.usg.edu/id:loc_evenhand_br0156p1s
- Digital Object URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/images/br0156p1s.jpg
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the "With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty Collection, Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division, Washington, D.C.
- Contributing Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights:
-
John A. Morsell, Assistant to NAACP Executive Secretary to President John F. Kennedy requesting the assistance of the federal government in the case of James Meredith, September 21, 1962
