Correspondence Between President Harry S. Truman and Ernie Roberts
This letter is President Harry S. Truman's response to a letter from his friend, Ernie Roberts, in which Roberts criticized Truman's civil rights program. In his reply, Truman describes some outrageous acts of violence and discrimination against black Americans. He insists tha...
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OCR Page 1 of 6September 8, 1948
the! Civil Rights
HARRY ARCHIVES S. "NATIONAL RECORDS TRUMAN AND LIBRARY
U.S.
SERVICE"
GOVERNMENT
Dear Ernie:
I appreciated very much your good letter of
the second and I am most happy that you can
see my viewpoint in this matter. It has im-
plications, both foreign and domestic, that go
far deeper than the surface would indicate.
Sincerely yours,
HARRY S. TRUMAN
Mr. E. R. Roberts
c/o Faultless Starch Company
Kansas City, Missouri
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