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President Harry S. Truman Speaks to the Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

President 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. Senator Wayne Morse is seated on the right in the first row. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt is seated second from the right on the first row, next to Senator Morse.

Harry S. Truman with the Special Committee on Civil Rights

Harry S. Truman with the Special Committee on Civil Rights. They are posing in the oval office. L to R: Right Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church; Channing Tobias, of New York City, Director of Phelps-Stokes Fund; Richard Potter, a guest not on the committee; Rabbi Roland G. Gittlesohn, Rockville Center, New York; Francis P. Matthews, Omaha, Nebraska; Morris Ernst, New York City; John S. Dickey (rear), President of Dartmouth College; James B. Carey, Secretary-Treasurer of the C.I.O.; Dr. Sadie Alexander, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; C. E.