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To Roy Wilkins3 June 1957 Montgomery, Ala. Wilkins had notified King by telephone that the Spingarn Award Committee unanimously selected him to receive the NAACPs highest honor for his leadership of the Montgomery bus boycott. This letter, in which King notifies Wilkins he will attend the award ceremony, arrived amidst news reports of conflict among black leaders involved in the Prayer Pilgrimage. Mr. Roy Wilkins 20 West Fortieth Street New York, New York Dear Roy: This is just a note to acknowledge receipt of your very kind letter of May 28, informing me that the Spingarn Medal Award Committee has chosen me as the reciepient of the Forty-Second Spingarn Medal. Certainly I would accept this honor with profound humility and deep gratitude. It is my only hope that I will be able to live up to the sublime and noble principles inherent in such an award. I am definitely planning to be in Detroit on the night of Friday, June 28, to receive the medal in person. Please feel free to contact me concerning further details. Very sincerely yours, [signed] M. L. King, Jr./b M. L. King, Jr., Minister MLK:mlb (Dictated by Rev. King, but transcribed and signed in his absence.) TLS. NAACPP-DLC. |
