Letter from Congressman Arthur Klein to President Harry S. Truman with Attachments
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OCR Page 1 of 12ARTHUR G. KLEIN
WASHINGTON OFFICE:
19TH Dis
NEW YORK
SUITE 401, H.O.B.
NEW YORK OFFICE:
OMMITTEES ON
50 BROAD STREET
EDUCATION AND LABOR
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Congress of the United States
NEW YORK CITY
File
93-B
house of Representatives
7/2/49
Washington, D. C.
THE WHITE HOUSE
May 3, 4 8 26 AM '49
RECEIVED
Dear Mr. President:
The National Capital Park and Planning Commission, by its
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vote on April 29 to eliminate racial designations from its Recrea-
tion System Plan for the District of Columbia, has removed the
prop upon which the D. C. Recreation Board has heretofore relied
as its justification for the maintenance of a racially segregated
playground system.
Since the Recreation Board has heretofore stated that it must
follow the Planning Commission's racial designations, the Board
should now follow the Planning Commission's removal of the racial
designations by abolishing its segregation rule which prevents
little children from playing in safe areas with their neighborhood
companions in a democratic manner.
In view of your vigorous, and deeply sincere, expressions
against the evils of racial discrimination, I believe that you will
be interested in the enclosed copies of letters which I have today
written to the following persons, asking them to have the Recrea-
tion Board's racial discrimination rule abolished:
Mr. Harry S. Wender, Chairman of the District of
Columbia Recreation Board
Mr. John Russell Young, President of the Board of
Commissioners of the District of Columbia
Mr. Melvin Sharpe, Acting President of the District
of Columbia Board of Education
I sincerely hope that you will find the opportunity to make
known to the District Commissioners and to the D. C. Recreation
Board your desire that racial discrimination and segregation on
the playgrounds in the Nation's Capital immediately cease.
Respectfully yours,
Arthur G. Klein
The President
Member of Congress
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The White House
Washington, D. C.
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