Memorandum from Donald Dawson to President Harry S. Truman

710/1/48 1285.00 THE white house WASHINGTON File August 13, 1948 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT # The Executive Order establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services provides for the appointment of an Advisory Committee in the National Military Establishment, composed of seven members to be designated by the President. The following have been considered with Secretary Forrestal and the Democratic National Committee and are recommended: ant Taby 1) Dr. Frank Graham, Chairman President, University of North Carolina 2) Ralph McGill Editor, The Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia 3) Lester Granger (Colored) Executive Secretary, National Urban League New York City 4 (If Jacob Billikopf Philadelphia, Pennsylvania BIRRY U.S. ARCHIVES "NATIONAL SERVICE GOVERNMENT RECORDS AND LIBRARY 5) John H. Sengestacke (Colored) Editor and Publisher, Chicago Defender la Don whine 9 Francis P. Matthews Dodd Lawyer, Omaha, Nebraska (Formerly served on Civil Rights Committee) Galloway Calhoun Inlius Imperial Potentate, Ochs Shrine, aller Texas V.P. ny Jimes June mque army The Barry Bingham :-