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Shishkin, Boris Basil, 1906-1984

President Truman with members of the Committee on Civil Rights

President 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. Gittelsohn, 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.

President Truman Meets with Delegation

President Harry S. Truman meets with a delegation representing the National Emergency Committee Against Mob Violence. From left to right: Leslie Perry, Washington D. C. representative of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Boris Shishkin, of the American Federation of Labor; Frederick E. Reissig, of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America; President Truman; Walter White, Secretary, NAACP; James Carey, Secretary, Congress of Industrial Organizations; and Dr. Channing Tobias.

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.

Attendees at the 1945 National Labor-Management Conference

Members, alternates, and advisers of the Executive Committee of the National Labor-Management Conference pose during their meeting. The photo includes autographs of the men in the photo, but they are not original signatures. This photo is a copy of the original. The signatures include: Ted F. Silvey, Clarence O. Skinner, Vincent P. Ahearn, Lee Pressman, Philip Murray, Sidney Hillman, Herman W. Steinkraus, Raymond S. Smethurst, William E. Simkin, John E. Dietz, George W. Taylor, David Sarnoff, Walter P. Stacey, Joyce O'Hara, Lewis B. Schwellenbach, John Holmes, Eric Johnston, M.M.

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

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.