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President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services

66-1673
Accession Number
66-1673
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White

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Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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President Harry S. Truman conferred with his Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services in the Cabinet Room of the White House. Seated left to right are: Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal; President Truman; and President of the AJ Donahue Corporation, Alphonsus J. Donahue. Standing, left to right are: Chairman of Office of Secretary of Defense Personnel Policy Board, Thomas R. Reid; General C.T. Lanham; President of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, John H. Sengstacke; President of Oberlin College, William E. Stevenson; Secretary of the Army, Kenneth Royall; Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington; Executive Secretary of the National Urban League, Lester Granger; President of General Cable Corporation, Dwight R.G. Palmer; Secretary of the Navy, John L. Sullivan; and the Chairman of the committee, former Solicitor General of the US, Charles Fahy. [From 306-NT].

Date(s)
January 12, 1949