Twelve-Year-Old’s Letter to President Eisenhower, 1957 | Records of Rights

Twelve-Year-Old’s Letter to President Eisenhower

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. . . If they say they better than the negros, it is the same as saying, “I don’t believe in God.”
These people who say you were wrong ought to look back to the Decration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.

Twelve-Year-Old’s Letter to President Eisenhower 1957

Sixth-grader Marilyn Albertson wrote this heartfelt letter to President Eisenhower pledging support for his actions in the Little Rock Crisis.

National Archives, Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

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Twelve-Year-Old’s Letter to President Eisenhower