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747 Syracuse
University City 5, Missouri
June 15, 1948
Dear President Truman:
As whi te residents of a city which is seething
with Negro resentment at the possibility
of having to serve in a Jim Crowed military
force again, we wish to ask you to use
all the power you have to abolish such 71285
undemocratic segregation
of ANY kind in
all of the branches of the armed services.
We feel that one of the most effective, firm,
and noticeable ways in which we can show the
rest of the world we believe in Democracy is to
practice such a virtue in all possible places
at home. We believe that this will still
Russian propaganda against us for this gross
injustice in our country.
We commend you for your Civil Rights Report.
And we ask you further to use your Presidential
Power to declare that emergency exists and
to hand down an Executive Order which will
abolish such practices immediately and
completelyo
Sincerely yours,
reperted In long
Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Dagen
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