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OCR Page 1 of 1925 August 1964
Dr. Martin Luther King, jr.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
407 Auburn Avenue, N. E.
Atlanta, Georgia
Dear Dr. King:
The Attorney General has asked me, in his absence,
to reply to your telegram concerning the Mississippi
Freedom Democratic Party.
This matter is for decision by the Democratic
National Convention, and in part involves legal questions
about the manner in which the delegates of the Freedom
Party, and the regular Mississippi Democratic Party,
were chosen. The Attorney General has, as you know,
exerted every resource available to him to free the
ballot for the Negro citizens of Mississippi, and has
great sympathy for the efforts of others working on
that most difficult problem. But he is not a delegate
to the Convention, and the Department of Justice of
course has no official role in connection with it.
The Convention will be making its decision shortly.
I am sure its delegates will act wisely.
Sincerely,
Burke Marshall
Assistant Attorney General
Civil Rights Division
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