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President Truman Receiving Report on Civil Rights from Charles E. Wilson, Standing Behind Truman and Wilson (left to right): Rabbi Roland B. Gittelson, Mrs. Sadie
T. Alexander, James B. Carey, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Mrs. M. E. Tilley, Dr. Chan-
ning H. Tobias, Boris Shishkin, Charles Luckman and Francis P. Matthews.
President Truman's
Committee on Civil Rights:
The Urban Implications
BY PHILIP H. VAUGHAN*
After the creation of the civil rights committee by President
Harry S. Truman on December 5, 1946, Philleo Nash, one of the
president's administrative assistants, received a memorandum from
the Democratic National Committee. The memorandum acknowledged that it was too early to evaluate the civil rights program "in
statistical terms." Nevertheless, it continued, a major portion of
*Philip H. Vaughan is an assistant professor of History at Iowa State
University, Ames. He received his B.S. and M.A. degrees from Memphis State
University, Memphis, Tennessee, and his Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma,
Norman.
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