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PPF 7361
BALTIMORE [M.D.] COUNCIL OF
NEGRO AGENCIES
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WAR DEPARTMENT
FFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY
WASHINGTON, D.C.
February 6, 1941
February 7th, 1941.
My dear Dean Grant:
MEMORANDUM TO MR. WILLIAM D. HASSETT:
I have read with deep interest and sympathy
your letter of January 28th outlining the aims and pur-
poses of the conference to be sponsored by the Baltimore
Council of Negro Agencies on March 15th and 16th. You
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ask me to send the conference a word of encouragement.
let do so with all the more readiness and pleasure because
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your own letter contained more than a word of encourage-
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the ment for me.of Negroes in Baltimore.
The integrity and fidelity of our Negro citizens
in a time of world turmoil have been, and continue to be, at
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a higher immunity to the poison of disloyalty. No group has
manifested a keener appreciation of the validity and vitality
of the democratic process.
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I wish your conference every success. You meet
at a critical moment. I have every faith in the soundness
of your deliberations.
Robert P. Patterson,
Under Secretary of War.
Sincerely yours,
Enes.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Dean George C. Grant
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Morgan State College
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Baltimore, Maryland
NEGRO AGENCIES
BALTIMORE [M.D.] COUNCIL OF
war DEPARTMENT
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY
WASHINGTON, D.C.
February 7th, 1941.
MEMORANDUM TO MR. WILLIAM D. HASSETT:
I have attached a draft of an appropriate
letter from the President to Dean Grant in connection with
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the conference of Negroes in Baltimore.
I am also returning the letter from Dean
Grant to the President.
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Robert P. Patterson,
Under Secretary of War.
Encs.
2/8/41
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
February 4, 1941
MEMORANDUM FOR THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF WAR:
With the return of the accompanying
letter from Dean George C. Grant of Morgan
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State College, Baltimore, will you please
submit draft of a suitable letter which the
President could send to the forthcoming meeting
of the Baltimore Council of Negro Agencies.
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George C. Grant
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February 4, 1941
January 28, 1941
MEMORANDUM FOR THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF WAR: x25
With the return of the accompanying
letter from Dean George C. Grant of Morgan
State College, Baltimore, will you please
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President could send to the forthcoming meeting
Honorable of the Baltimore Council of Negro Agencies.
The 145,000 Negro citizens of Baltimore, Maryland,
keenly the failure of American Democracy to them
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in the present emergency. Our only is to
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as instruments in the preservation of the
is the only one we know and love. We who have
the American scene realize that the pressures are
upon the Negro are not the only that Democracy an
ideal has yet to be attained. We are of a
problem. Our purpose WILLIAM D. HASSETT to
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To this end the of Negro
George C. Grant, sponsoring a
in Dean, Morgan State College, This is to
Baltimore, Md. of interration seems to rest so heavily
us. The of this 10 to you to the
Says the 145,000 Negroes of Baltimore feel keenly the failure
of American democracy to consider them as assets in the present
emergency. Balto. Council of Negro Agencies, representing 33 organ-
you izations, is called to consider the problem of integration which seems
to rest so heavily upon them. Asks for word of encouragement from Pres.
for this conference ( Mar.15-16).
A note from you will lend freeh to the
of our problems and problem, with
tration.
This letter 1a written in my of
Program Committee of the
President of the Baltimore
State College.
Respectfully yours,
George Co Grant
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CARNEGIE HALL
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MORGAN STATE COLLEGE
BALTIMORE, MD.
January 28, 1941
Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt
President of the United States of America
White House
Washington, D. C.
Honorable Sir:
The 145, 000 Negro citizens of Baltimore, Maryland, feel
keenly the failure of American Democracy to consider them as
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assets in the present emergency. Our only desire is to be
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used as instruments in the preservation of the social order,
which is the only one we know and love. We who have surveyed
the American scene realize that the pressures which are exerted
upon the Negro are not the only evidence that Democracy as an
ideal has yet to be attained. We are merely part of a total
problem. Our purpose is to make an intelligent contribution to
the problem so that Democratic practices will be in tune with
enunciated theories.
To this end the Baltimore Council of Negro Agencies, repre-
senting thirty-three organizations, is sponsoring a conference
in Baltimore on March 15-16. This conference is called to con-
sider the problem of integration which seems to rest so heavily
upon us. The purpose of this letter is to ask you to send the
participants in this conference a word of encouragement. Negro
citizens of all political faiths recognize the inherent fairness
which characterizes your administration. We know further that
you are caught in the web of traditional public opinion and are,
therefore, restrained from taking steps which your heart dictates
as just.
A note from you will lend fresh impetus to the consideration
of our problems and America's problem, with intelligent concen-
tration.
This letter is written in my capacity as Chairman of the
Program Committee of the Council of Negro Agencies, as Vice-
President of the Baltimore Urban League, and as Dean of Morgan
State College.
Respectfully yours,
George C. Grant
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CARNEGIE HALL
MORGAN STATE COLLEGE
BALTIMORE, MD.
February 17, 1941
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Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt
President of the United States of America
White House
Washington, D. C.
Honorable Sir:
Thank you for the encouraging words which
you sent to the Conference on Participation of
Negroes in Defense, sponsored by the Baltimore
Council of Negro Agencies. We are deeply grate-
ful for the appropriateness and sincerity of
your message.
Respectfully yours,
Gingel hunt
George C. Grant, Chairman
Program Committee
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NEGRO AGENCIES