Letter from Stephen Harris to MLK

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[Page 1] Jan[uary] 19, 1968 [Stamp in red ink: Jan[uary] 24,1968] Dear Sir; I'm a Negro Marine [United States Marine Corp] at Marble Mountain Air Base. About three miles southeast of Da Nang. I'm writting you bcause of the [Underlined: Racial Violence] here in Viet-Nam [Vietnam]. There has been two [Underlined: Riots] here in the last six months. They are asking us not to let it hit the [Underlined: papers]. But if something don't happend [does not happen] it will. Because I'm going to write Stokely Carmichael, Rev[erend] Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We have took all we are going to take. I'm not saying this for myself its a lot [of] Negro's that feel the same way. [Page 2] I know I will go to jail after this letter. Because every Negro who fight it. Gets hell after wards [afterwards]. Thank you for your time. Thank You [Closing Signature: Stephen Harris]