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President Truman speaking at an unknown event before a bi-racial audience

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President Harry S. Truman speaks from the steps of a building to a bi-racial audience. On his left are five Negro military men. The event, location, and date are unknown, though possibly in Kansas City.

Bureau of the Census Choral Group

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The Bureau of the Census Choral Group performs in the Commerce Auditorium at the ceremony of the 4th Annual Honor Awards Program. African American members of the choir are visible. See also 2000-271.

Bureau of the Census Choral Group

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The Bureau of the Census Choral Group performs in the Commerce Auditorium at the ceremony of the 4th Annual Honor Awards Program. The choral group includes African American singers.

Marian Anderson and Oscar Chapman

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Opera singer Marian Anderson (second from left) and Oscar Chapman (left) at the Lincoln Memorial.

Marian Anderson with Oscar Chapman

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Marian Anderson (center), Assistant Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (right) and others. All others are unidentified.

Marian Anderson

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Marian Anderson (right) and an unknown woman.

Dean Acheson shaking hands with a hospitalized Negro man

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Secretary of State Dean Acheson is shown shaking hands with a hospitalized Negro man at an unidentified location. From: Dean Acheson Papers.

Portrait of Robert Brown

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Head-and-shoulders portrait of Robert Brown, an African American gentleman who shined President Harry S. Truman's shoes at Frank Spina's barbershop. The photo was taken during an interview by noted writer Merle Miller for the Truman television adaptation of his book "Plain Speaking" which appeared on the Public Broadcasting System in 1976.

President Harry S. Truman Meets with African American Leaders

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President Harry S. Truman meeting with a group of African-American leaders, who urged President Truman to put qualified African-Americans into administrative and policy-making jobs in the government as part of a broad program for greater participation by African-Americans in the Defense Program. President Truman in seated in center. Those in attendance were: William Y. Bell; Mary McLeod Bethune (seated, left); J. Robert Booker; A. Philip Randolph; Dowdal Davis; Lester Granger; Elmer Henderson; Charles S. Johnson; Benjamin E. Mays; Channing H. Tobias; Willard S.

President Harry S. Truman Receives the Committee on Civil Rights Report

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President Harry S. Truman is receiving a report from the Committee on Civil Rights from Charles Wilson. Standing, from left to right: Most Reverend Francis J. Haas, Roland B. Gittelsohn, Dr. Sadie T. Alexander, James B. Carey, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Dorothy Rogers Tilly, Channing H. Tobias, Charles Wilson, Boris Shishkin, Charles Luckman, and Francis P. Matthews.

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