African Americans

Reverend Dixon visiting the Harry S. Truman Library.

Portrait of Major R.R. Wright, founder and president of the Citizens and Southern Bank. Original is oversized.

President Harry S. Truman (front row, left) leaves after giving a speech at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) conference at the Lincoln Memorial. He is accompanied by (front row) Eleanor Roosevelt and Walter White, president of the NAACP; General Harry Vaughan and Captain James Foskett (second row, left to right); Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson and Senator Wayne Morse (third row, left to right, Vinson partly obscured by Foskett); and Attorney General Tom Clark (behind and to the left of Senator Morse in the bow tie).

President Harry S. Truman speaks from a rostrum on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, as he addresses the closing session of the 38th annual conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Reflection pool and the Washington Monument are in background.

Raymond Foley (right) stands outside of a building, possibly a house or apartment complex. Five unidentified men pose with him.

Raymond Foley (center) accepts a document from an unidentified woman while nine unidentified men and three unidentified women look on.

Raymond Foley (sixth from right) sits at a table with ten unidentified men. One unidentified man (left corner of the photo) serves the men. Three unidentified men sit at a round table in the foreground of the photo.

Hareltine M. Covington, Frances B. Hendson, Gertrude Marshall, and Herbert B. Jordan pose for a photo in a hallway. It is unclear who is who in the photo.

United States Department of Agriculture officials pose for photograph. Ralph R. Will is third from the left in the front row and T. Roy Reid is fifth from the left in the front row. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman, center, is shown shaking hands with Master Sergeant James Hendrix who recently survived a 1,000 foot fall from an Army airplane when his parachute failed to open. In 1945, M/Sgt. Hendrix received the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism during World War II. M/Sgt. Hendrix was escorted to the White House by African American evangelist Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, standing on the left.