Oppositional Letter to MLK

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A critic of Dr. King advises him to help his supporters purchase birth control instead of focusing on civil rights.

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Oppositional Letter to MLK
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Martin Luther King, Instead of using the money to march into our nation's Capitol & [lived?] "shanties"[.] Why don't you buy [illegible] distribute [Underlined: "the pill] to a few of these people who bring 10 & 12 children into the world for the govt.[government] to care for. A Very Poor American
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Correspondence

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Poverty
Birth Control
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963
People
King, Martin Luther, Jr.

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Washington, D.C.