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    "ocrText": "PPF 7361\nBALTIMORE [M.D.] COUNCIL OF\nNEGRO AGENCIES\nIf signed pls mail out\n& re turn file to STE\nP.F.\nfilm\n7361\nWAR DEPARTMENT\nFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY\nWASHINGTON, D.C.\nFebruary 6, 1941\nFebruary 7th, 1941.\nMy dear Dean Grant:\nMEMORANDUM TO MR. WILLIAM D. HASSETT:\nI have read with deep interest and sympathy\nyour letter of January 28th outlining the aims and pur-\nposes of the conference to be sponsored by the Baltimore\nCouncil of Negro Agencies on March 15th and 16th. You\n#\nask me to send the conference a word of encouragement.\nlet do so with all the more readiness and pleasure because\nG\nyour own letter contained more than a word of encourage-\n3\nthe ment for me.of Negroes in Baltimore.\nThe integrity and fidelity of our Negro citizens\nin a time of world turmoil have been, and continue to be, at\nx93\nGran heartening spectacle. No group in our population has shown\nX PP730\na higher immunity to the poison of disloyalty. No group has\nmanifested a keener appreciation of the validity and vitality\nof the democratic process.\nxpp75249\nI wish your conference every success. You meet\nat a critical moment. I have every faith in the soundness\nof your deliberations.\nRobert P. Patterson,\nUnder Secretary of War.\nSincerely yours,\nEnes.\nFRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT\nDean George C. Grant\nX\nA\nMorgan State College\nX\nBaltimore, Maryland\nNEGRO AGENCIES\nBALTIMORE [M.D.] COUNCIL OF\nwar DEPARTMENT\nOFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY\nWASHINGTON, D.C.\nFebruary 7th, 1941.\nMEMORANDUM TO MR. WILLIAM D. HASSETT:\nI have attached a draft of an appropriate\nletter from the President to Dean Grant in connection with\n3\nthe conference of Negroes in Baltimore.\nI am also returning the letter from Dean\nGrant to the President.\nRLYP.PA\nRobert P. Patterson,\nUnder Secretary of War.\nEncs.\n2/8/41\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nFebruary 4, 1941\nMEMORANDUM FOR THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF WAR:\nWith the return of the accompanying\nletter from Dean George C. Grant of Morgan\nup\nState College, Baltimore, will you please\nsubmit draft of a suitable letter which the\nPresident could send to the forthcoming meeting\nof the Baltimore Council of Negro Agencies.\nas\nis\nB\nWilliam D. Hassett\nto\nWILLIAM D. HASSETT\n114d to\nheavily\nthe\nthe failure\nresent\n33 organ-\nat\n1 which seems\nnent from Pres.\nLbs\nRespectfully yours,\nGeorge C. Grant\nGCG:J\nmorgan STATE COLLEGE\nFebruary 4, 1941\nJanuary 28, 1941\nMEMORANDUM FOR THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF WAR: x25\nWith the return of the accompanying\nletter from Dean George C. Grant of Morgan\nState College, Baltimore, will you please\nica\nWhi submit draft of a suitable letter which the\nby\nWai\nPresident could send to the forthcoming meeting\nHonorable of the Baltimore Council of Negro Agencies.\nThe 145,000 Negro citizens of Baltimore, Maryland,\nkeenly the failure of American Democracy to them\nIs\nin the present emergency. Our only is to\nB\nas instruments in the preservation of the\nis the only one we know and love. We who have\nthe American scene realize that the pressures are\nupon the Negro are not the only that Democracy an\nideal has yet to be attained. We are of a\nproblem. Our purpose WILLIAM D. HASSETT to\nthe\nproblem\n80\nthat\nenunciated theories.\nLet. to Pres., 1/28/41 from\nTo this end the of Negro\nGeorge C. Grant, sponsoring a\nin Dean, Morgan State College, This is to\nBaltimore, Md. of interration seems to rest so heavily\nus. The of this 10 to you to the\nSays the 145,000 Negroes of Baltimore feel keenly the failure\nof American democracy to consider them as assets in the present\nemergency. Balto. Council of Negro Agencies, representing 33 organ-\nyou izations, is called to consider the problem of integration which seems\nto rest so heavily upon them. Asks for word of encouragement from Pres.\nfor this conference ( Mar.15-16).\nA note from you will lend freeh to the\nof our problems and problem, with\ntration.\nThis letter 1a written in my of\nProgram Committee of the\nPresident of the Baltimore\nState College.\nRespectfully yours,\nGeorge Co Grant\nGCG:J\nMTFP\nWENOUVNDAY LOB\nCARNEGIE HALL\nmk2/8/41\nMORGAN STATE COLLEGE\nBALTIMORE, MD.\nJanuary 28, 1941\nHonorable Franklin D. Roosevelt\nPresident of the United States of America\nWhite House\nWashington, D. C.\nHonorable Sir:\nThe 145, 000 Negro citizens of Baltimore, Maryland, feel\nkeenly the failure of American Democracy to consider them as\nx335-ls\nassets in the present emergency. Our only desire is to be\nx335-B\nused as instruments in the preservation of the social order,\nwhich is the only one we know and love. We who have surveyed\nthe American scene realize that the pressures which are exerted\nupon the Negro are not the only evidence that Democracy as an\nideal has yet to be attained. We are merely part of a total\nproblem. Our purpose is to make an intelligent contribution to\nthe problem so that Democratic practices will be in tune with\nenunciated theories.\nTo this end the Baltimore Council of Negro Agencies, repre-\nsenting thirty-three organizations, is sponsoring a conference\nin Baltimore on March 15-16. This conference is called to con-\nsider the problem of integration which seems to rest so heavily\nupon us. The purpose of this letter is to ask you to send the\nparticipants in this conference a word of encouragement. Negro\ncitizens of all political faiths recognize the inherent fairness\nwhich characterizes your administration. We know further that\nyou are caught in the web of traditional public opinion and are,\ntherefore, restrained from taking steps which your heart dictates\nas just.\nA note from you will lend fresh impetus to the consideration\nof our problems and America's problem, with intelligent concen-\ntration.\nThis letter is written in my capacity as Chairman of the\nProgram Committee of the Council of Negro Agencies, as Vice-\nPresident of the Baltimore Urban League, and as Dean of Morgan\nState College.\nRespectfully yours,\nGeorge C. Grant\nGCG:J\nD' BOOK\nденле.\nHOMES D' 0*\ngood so of file nutreg 2ft\nCARNEGIE HALL\nMORGAN STATE COLLEGE\nBALTIMORE, MD.\nFebruary 17, 1941\n7\nHonorable Franklin D. Roosevelt\nPresident of the United States of America\nWhite House\nWashington, D. C.\nHonorable Sir:\nThank you for the encouraging words which\nyou sent to the Conference on Participation of\nNegroes in Defense, sponsored by the Baltimore\nCouncil of Negro Agencies. We are deeply grate-\nful for the appropriateness and sincerity of\nyour message.\nRespectfully yours,\nGingel hunt\nGeorge C. Grant, Chairman\nProgram Committee\nGCG:J\nNEGRO AGENCIES"
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