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Title: Telegram from a constituent to Jack Brooks, June 18, 1968
Identifier: camh-dob-001727
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: African Americans--Civil Rights, Protest movements
Dates: 1968-06-18
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Telegram sent by Mrs. C. Morton asking Jack Brooks to support legislation to alleviate poverty.

Title: Telegram from a constituent to Jack Brooks, June 18, 1968
Identifier: camh-dob-001726
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: African Americans--Civil Rights, Protest movements
Dates: 1968-06-18
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Telegram sent by Mrs. Bruce Scott urging Jack Brooks to support the Poor People's Campaign.

Title: Telegram from a political organization to Jack Brooks, March 10, 1065
Identifier: camh-dob-002258
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, African Americans--Civil Rights
Dates: 1965-03-10
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Telegram from John L. Gipson, Executive Director of the Community Affair Co-Ordinating Committee urging Jack Brooks to support the Voting Rights Act.

Title: Telegram from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Jack Brooks, January 3, 1965
Identifier: camh-dob-001386
Creator: King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: United States. Congress, Democratic party (U.S.)
Dates: 1965-01-03
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Martin Luther King, Jr. telegrams Jack Brooks, urging him not to vote to seat the Mississippi Democratic Party's delegation. At the time, the official Mississippi Democratic Party only allowed participation by white people. King lobbied for the inclusion of delegates from the Mississippi Freedom Party in the National Democratic Convention, whose Black and white delegates were elected in local, seperate caucuses opposed by the White Citizens Council and other proponents of segregation. Although the National Democratic Convention did not end up seating the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's delegates, the activism highlighted the nature of racist electoral politics, and allowed for the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to gain Congressional passage. This telegram was possibly a form letter sent to multiple Congressmen.

Title: Telegram from the NAACP southwest regional office to Jack Brooks, February 11, 1964
Identifier: camh-dob-001823
Contributor: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Legislation, African Americans--Civil Rights
Dates: 1964-02-11
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Telegram from Clarence A. Laws, field director of the Southwest Regional Office of the NAACP thanking Jack Brooks for his vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.