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Truman and African Americans aboard Ferdinand Magellan

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.)