Black Freedom Struggle in the United States:

Document 52 July 7, 1948 Memorandum with attachments To: James B. Forrestal Fr: Matthew J. Connelly

Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman: Truman Administration’s civil rights program, desegregation of the armed forces: transmittal of letter from Connelly informing Grant Reynolds that the president will be unable to meet with him and A. Philip Randolph to discuss issuance of an executive order ending military segregation and suggesting that he raise the matter with the secretary of defense instead, 1948

Document 33: July 6, 1943 Letter

From the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library: Report on the national convention of the March on Washington Movement in Chicago, Illinois, 1943

Summary discharge or mustering out of regiments or companies. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of War, together with several documents, including a letter of General Nettleton, and memoranda as to precedents for the summary discharge or mustering out of regiments or companies.

House and Senate Documents: Brownsville affray, report of Secretary of War, and additional testimony [enclosed with 5252 S.doc.402/1; copy of 5078 S.doc.155], 1906

Names of enlisted men discharged on account of Brownsville affray, with applications for reenlistment. Letter from the Acting Secretary of War, transmitting, pursuant to a Senate resolution of April 6, 1908, the names of the enlisted men of the Twenty-fifth Infantry discharged without honor on account of the Brownsville, Tex., shooting affray, who have applied for reenlistment under the order of the Secretary of War, and the statements submitted by them.

House and Senate Documents: Brownsville affray: names of enlisted men discharged, 1908