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Letter from John P. Kohn in Montgomery, Alabama, to J. Kirkman Jackson in Birmingham, Alabama.

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@ Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130

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Jackson served as an attorney and advisor for Governor George Wallace when he made his "stand in the schoolhouse door" at the University of Alabama. In the letter, written the day before the incident at the university, Kohn discusses Seybourn Lynne, the federal judge who issued the preliminary injunction enjoining Wallace not to prevent the enrollment of Afrocan Americans: "As I said to the Governor yesterday, we have a tight line to the Judge. A better expression, I should have said we are walking on a tight rope, or even better, the razor's edge, for to the Judge the law is clear and I was impressed with his frankness. I hope the Governor does not go over the tight line or rope for we do not want him to be in contempt."
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1963 June 10 1963 06 10
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Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Alabama
  3. Civil Rights
  4. Civil Rights Movements
  5. Education
  6. Education, Higher
  7. Governors
  8. Jackson, J. Kirkman
  9. Kohn, John P
  10. Lynne, Seybourn Harris, 1907 2000
  11. Segregation
  12. Segregation In Higher Education
  13. Universities
  14. University Of Alabama
  15. Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919 1998

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