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Box 55

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

"Civil rights", 1947

 File — Box: 55, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

A letter from a Democratic South Carolina State Senator R. M. Kennedy Jr. opposing a report of President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights that advocates a permanent Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC) Bill, removal of all segregation between races, an anti-poll tax law, and other provisions. In the letter, he expressed his opinion that the South was being abandoned by the Democratic party.

Dates: 1947