President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights.
- Location: McKeldin Library
Call Number: Microfilm E185.61.P674 - 10 Reels.
Description
This collection includes materials from the Harry S. Truman Library relating to the work of the above mentioned committee, which presented a report to the President in 1947 entitled To Secure These Rights. The Committee criticized segregation in its many aspects and offered thirty-four recommendations for federal intervention in order to eliminate it from the U.S. civil service and the armed forces.
Materials are organized as they appear in the original manuscript sources.
The guide to this collection must be used for access. It does not contain a subject index.
Documents from seven manuscript sources are included in this collection: the Tom Clark Papers, the George M. Elsey Papers, the Frank P. Matthews Papers, the Philleo Nash Papers, and three record groups in the Harry S. Truman Papers.
Of special note is the active correspondence of the Committee with groups such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Urban League, the American Jewish Committee, the American Civil Liberties Union and the American and National Bar Associations.
A large proportion of the collection consists of correspondence, testimony before the Committee, transcripts of its meetings and working papers of the Committee.
Index/Guide
The following source provides more detailed information about the contents of each microfilm reel in the collection:- MCK REF E185.61.P674 Index
- Juhnke, William, ed. President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights (Index)
