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Recording Date(s)
June 29, 1947
Accession Number
SR64-54
Description
President Harry S. Truman's address before the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The President spoke at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, at 4:30 p.m. In his opening words he referred to Walter F. White, Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who served as chairman of the conference, and to former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Senator Wayne Morse who also spoke. The address was carried on a nationwide radio broadcast.
Restrictions
Unrestricted
Keywords
HST Keywords
NAACP
Speakers
Original Format(s)
Production and Copyright
Columbia Broadcasting System
National Archives Identifier (NAID)