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Truman and African Americans aboard Ferdinand Magellan

2006-208
Accession Number
2006-208
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
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NAID 350376810
Keywords
African Americans
Friends and associates
Presidential campaign trips
Presidential campaign, 1948
Presidential press secretaries
Presidents
Railroads
HST Keywords
Negroes - Leaders; Trains - Truman - Ferdinand Magellan; Truman - Campaigns - Presidential - 1948 - Iowa; Truman - Dignitaries - Political Associates - Negro
People Pictured
Ross, Charles G. (Charles Griffith), 1885-1950
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
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Description

A group of African-American supporters meet with President Harry S. Truman in his private railroad car, the Ferdinand Magellan, after delivering a speech in Des Moines, Iowa. Left to right are: Charles Ross (Press Secretary), Anna Hedgeman (leader and chief strategist of the Citizens Committee to Reelect Truman), J. McKinley Neal (Missouri State Representative), Robert L. Sweeney (the first Black supervisor in the Kansas City, Missouri Post Office), Lewis W. Clymer, and President Truman. (Same as 78-741 and 2006-7. 2006-7 is autographed.)

Date(s)
ca.
September 1948