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Volume 3: Birth of a New Age,
December 1955-December 1956
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To Roy Wilkins

28 January 1956
Montgomery, Ala.

King sends Wilkins, executive secretary of the NAACP, this form letter of appreciation. Wilkins had sent a five hundred dollar contribution from the NAACP to the MIA.

Mr. Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary,
National Association for Advancement of Colored People,
20 West 40th Street,
New York 18, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Wilkins:

This is just a note to express our deepest gratitude to you for your very fine contribution. I assure you that we will long remember your coming to our aid in this momentous struggle. Such contributions from friends and organizations sympathetic with our struggle give us renewed courage and vigor to carry on.

With every good wish, I am

Cordially yours,
[signed]
M. L. King, Jr.,
President.

MLK/ehr

THLS. RWP-DLC.

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