A. Constituent Correspondence
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These letters between Talmadge and his Georgia constituents date, almost exclusively, to 1968. Covering this important year in civil rights history, the correspondence deals with subjects such as the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., social unrest, freedom marches, and the Poor People's campaign.
The correspondence is arranged in reverse chronological order, according to the date of Talmadge's outgoing letter. Clippings that were included with the constituent letters have been photocopied on bond paper.
As noted earlier, other civil rights material exist elsewhere in the Talmadge Collection. The researcher will find more constituent correspondence for other years in the Press Office Series.
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