Letter A: From First Lady of the United States to Walter White, Executive Secretary of the NAACP
Before I received your letter today I had been in to the President... and he said the difficulty
is that it is unconstitutional apparently for the Federal Government to step in in the lynching
situation. The President feels that lynching is a question of education in the states, rallying
good citizens, and creating public opinion so that the localities themselves will wipe it out.
However, if it were done by a Northerner, it will have an antagonistic effect... I am deeply
troubled about the whole situation as it seems to be a terrible thing to stand by and let it
continue.
Letter B: Daisy Bates to Roy Wilkins. Executive Secretary of the NAACP. on conditions of
black children in a previously all-white school.
Conditions are yet pretty rough in the school for the children ... The treatment of the children
had been getting steadily worse for the last two weeks in the form of kicking, spitting, and
general abuse. As a result of our visit, stronger measures are being taken against the white
students who are guilty of committing these offenses ... [The President of the United States)
was very much concerned about the crisis ... Last Friday, the 13th, I was asked to call
Washington and see if we could get FBI men placed in the school.
Letter was likely written first because... (use evidence from the letter and what you have learned
about the Civil Rights movement)
Letter
was likely written later because(evidence and knowledge)