Black Freedom Struggle in the United States:

Document 54 July 17, 1948 Memorandum with attachments To: Clark [M.] Clifford Fr: James [B.] Forrestal

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Document Title: Document 54 July 17, 1948 Memorandum with attachments To: Clark [M.] Clifford Fr: James [B.] Forrestal

Document Description: Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman: Truman Administration’s civil rights program, desegregation of the armed forces: transmittal of letter to the secretary of defense in which Beauharnais expresses his disgust over the policy of nonsegregation in the armed forces and his opinion that it goes against natural law? to force whites to associate so closely with African Americans against their wills

Author: James Forrestal

Publication Year: 1948

Publication: Documentary History of the Harry S. Truman Presidency

ProQuest Product: ProQuest History Vault

Source Institution: Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman, Papers as President, President’s Secretary’s File, 1945-1953, Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Missouri

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