LITTLE MAN IS A BIG HELP
Clayton Chester AKA “Little Man” Gets A Letter In The Mail From MLKJ
36 year old and farmer
week I would like for you and
Clayton Chester got a Letter for his miraculous help with
me to have dinner. We can discuss ideas that we can
the civil rights protest in Birmingham. The letter read:
accomplish together From,
“Dear Clayton, I wanted to tell you that I
Martian Clayton Chester Logan is a
was very happy with the amount of people that came
farmer working on the land he bought. Being 5’3” his
to the protest a while ago. The reason of this letter was
nickname “Little Man” stuck. He got bus loads of people to
because I saw you had a big part with organizing the
come to the protest. He received the letter last week
protest. By the end of this
Thursday. [1]
This is the actual letter that was sent to him.