McCarthy, Eugene [Circular letter from McCarthy for President campaign]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #:
GLC09641.15.01
Author/Creator:
McCarthy, Eugene
Place Written:
Los Angeles, California
Type:
Document
Date:
16 March 1968
Pagination:
1 p. ; 27.9 x 18.5 cm.
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One undated circular letter of the McCarthy for President campaign. Item lists his stances on human rights, jobs, education, housing and civil rights. Includes a quote from Martin Luther King Jr., from a CDC meeting on March 16, 1968.
Eugene McCarthy was a U.S. Senator from Minnesota who ran a presidential campaign in 1968. He emerged as the Democratic candidate challenging the incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson who was involved with the Vietnam War when no other Democrat, namely Robert F. Kennedy would.
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1101 Westwood Blvd. Los Angeles California 90024
Senator Eugene McCarthy for President
EUGENE McMARTHY stands for
HUMAN RIGHTS for all Americans:
"We have treated our minorities like colonials, exploiting them at home and sending them off to fight in our wars. We can tolerate this no longer!"
JOBS for all Americans:
"Every American has the right to a decent job, a job with dignity fitting a man, where he can earn a minimum income established and assured by the Federal Government!"
EDUCATION for all Americans:
"The amount and kind necessary to develop full potential-- for the most gifted among us, the least gifted, and those of average gift as well!"
HOMES for all Americans:
"Not a house in isolation -- not a house in a ghetto -- but a house in a community that is part of the United States of America!"
EQUALITY for all Americans:
"Racism is a moral monstrosity! The Black man's cause should be upheld -- not because there are votes in Harlem, or Watts, or Chicago -- but because the Black man's cause is just! THE DEATH OF RACISM IN AMERICA IS A MORAL NECESSITY!"
-- SEN. EUGENE McCARTHY
"I COMMEND YOU FOR ENDORSING ONE OF THE TRULY OUTSTANDING, CAPABLE, BRILLIANT, DEDICATED AMERICANS... SENATOR EUGENE McCARTHY!
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING
(to the CDC, March 16, 1968)
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