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[Bob Moses, Memo to Parents of Mississippi Summer Volunteers (late June 1964)]
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"TO: PARENTS OF ALL MISSISSIPPI SUMMER VOLUNTEERS...
Immediate action is needed by all those concerned with the safety of the Mississippi Summer Volunteers."
#BobMoses #FreedomSummer
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"TO: PARENTS OF ALL MISSISSIPPI SUMMER VOLUNTEERS...
Immediate action is needed by all those concerned with the safety of the Mississippi Summer Volunteers."
#BobMoses #FreedomSummer
"Unless the President and the Attorney General can be convinced of the need for Federal protection of civil rights workers, the events of Philadelphia are almost certain to be repeated over and over again in the next two months."
"We are asking all parents to use their influence in the coming week to pressure President Johnson and Attorney General Kennedy into a commitment to protect workers before violence occurs, instead of waiting until the worst has happened before they offer their help."
We have to usher our elders into the next frontier of Civil Rights activism. Many came from a Pan African ideology that lumps us all together as Black Activists without understanding the con that was played on MLK, Malcolm, Stokley, and others during the 60’s. #ADOS✊🏾 is specific
#ADOSActivists✊🏾 have spent the last 4 years crafting a #BlackAgenda that is inclusive of #ADOS✊🏾 and all of America,yet we have been detested by the #LiberalEstablishment. We have no friends. Only allies at this point. Meanwhile, @ReverendWarnock @ossoff
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,@JoeBiden, @SenKamalaHarris, and others on the @DNC ballots were ushered in on the backs of #ADOS✊🏾 voters who have been a captured electorate since #FannieLouHamer’s all Black delegation from MS was denied a seat at the @DNC Convention in 1964.
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