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Title: Letter from a constituent to Jack Brooks, May 14, 1968
Identifier: camh-dob-001724
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: African Americans--Civil Rights, Protest movements
Dates: 1968-05-14
Box: 2007-255/176
Folder: 161.4
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Letter from Mrs. Carroll Lord to Jack Brooks expressing concern over damage to public lands during the Poor People's Campaign's march on Washington, D.C.

Title: Letter from constituents to Richard Nixon and Jack Brooks, May 17, 1970
Identifier: camh-dob-001777
Contributor: Nixon, Richard M. Richard Milhous, 1913-1994, Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Protest movements
Dates: 1970-05-17
Box: 2007-255/216
Folder: 191.22
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A copy of a letter from Elton and Helen Eubanks of Port Arthur, TX sent to President Richard Nixon and copied to Jack Brooks. The Eubanks' express their disapproval of campus protests and resultant opposition to the lowering of the voting age to eighteen. The 26th amendment to the Constitution, lowering the voting age to eighteen, was ratified the following year.

Title: Letter from Jack Brooks to a constituent, May 29, 1968
Identifier: camh-dob-001723
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: African Americans--Civil Rights, Protest movements
Dates: 1968-05-29
Box: 2007-255/176
Folder: 161.4
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Carbon copy of a reply sent by Jack Brooks in response to a constituent letter expressing concern over damage caused to public land by the Poor People's Campaign's march on Washington. The letter uses some language Brooks's office included in other letters responding to constituents not in favor of the march.

Title: Letter from Jack Brooks to constituents, June 5, 1970
Identifier: camh-dob-001778
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Protest movements
Dates: 1970-06-05
Box: 2007-255/216
Folder: 191.22
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Copy of a letter written in response to a letter sent by Elton and Helen Eubanks of Port Arthur, TX to President Richard Nixon and Jack Brooks. Brooks expresses his support for the first amendment right to free expression though he is dismayed by the violence that occurred at protests. This letter is a standard response sent by Brooks to constituents regarding this issue.