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Stanley Levison — Part 3
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President, regardless of the precise identity of the assassin,
occurred “in a context of violence and hatred which have been
boiling up in our nation for the past several years."
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Continuing, it Gompares this assassination to the Borpapeslevivil
of Abraham Lincoln, pointing out that even though Lincoln was
succeeded by a Vice-President of Southern origin, who had
neither the experience nor the passion of Lincoln, the re-
construction moved forward in spite of this and that the
transition from physical slavery was carried through because
the forces which had generated the change were too powerful
to be turned back.
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setback in weing denied full freedom and equality, but that
"different elements" were responsible for this. It went on
to state that the Negro protest became a Negro revolution in
the summer of last year, and that it will not dissolve
now because it was not a product of one man or one leader.
Continuing, the statement indicated that King met President
Lyndon Johnson, while he was Vice-President, and that King
feit that Johnson had a statesman-like grasp on the problem
and that King thinks Johnson will reslize that civil rights is
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not one of several issues but is the dcminant domestic issue
and that guided by a correct appraisal of realities Johnson
is equipped to be effective in getting Congressional results.
According to the statement, the civil rights movement will not
be stopped until its demands are fulfilled. At the close, Jones
suggested that King paraphrase part of Lincoln's Gettysburg
address to state that the living shouid go on Bo that the
dead shall not have died in vain, and he suggested a quote
from one of President er yedy'g eneecnes to the effect that thoee
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who do nothing invite zhane as “weil as violence, while those
who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.
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