President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services Files, 1948–1952

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President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services Files, 1948–1952

1948-1952

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/601113

The President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services Files contain telegrams, correspondence, handwritten notes, memorandums, newspaper clippings, press releases, printed materials, reports, speeches, executive orders, and Congressional bills. The documents relate to the military, education, housing, civil rights, health, equality, racial quotas, enlistment, the McCarran Bill, racial discrimination, the Navajo-Hopi Rehabilitation Bill, integration in the military, Puerto Rico's Constitution, and Samoan civil government. A large part of this series consists of drafts and background information pertaining to the 1948 campaign speeches, civil rights speeches and the 1952 State of the Union address.

2 linear feet, 7 linear inches

eng, Latn

Harry S. Truman Library

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Harry S. Truman Library

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