that locals like Harry Moore bore on a daily basis, year in and year out, as they continued bravely, despite “the possibility of violent death,” the campaign for the civil rights of blacks in the Jim Crow South. The governor’s office was flooded with thousands of letters and telegrams demanding action on behalf of the Moores, but the telegram that Governor Warren received from Thurgood Marshall struck a more somber note, reminding the governor that the Moores were “representatives of the finest type of citizens of your state” and that “unless they can be secure from lawlessness no one in
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