Miss Maude Gray, "Negro Girl from Austin, Texas"
Item
- Title
- Miss Maude Gray, "Negro Girl from Austin, Texas"
- Description
- Jacket for the recording of Miss Gray in which she relays her concerns regarding the mistreatment and discrimination black soldiers, like her brother, were forced to endure as service members in the U.S. military. She asks President Roosevelt to understand that black Americans want to serve in the military honorably. She explains why black Americans need his help to ensure they are treated with dignity and offered the same opportunities as everyone else.
- Date
- 1942
- Source
-
Faulk, John Henry, and Bill Grumbles. "Dear Mr. President," Granbury, Austin, and Hood County, Texas, January or February. Austin, Texas, 1942. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1942003_sr34/.
- Subject
- Racism
- World War II
- WWII
- World War 2
- WW2
- Black Americans
- Black Soldiers
- Negro Americans
- Negro soldiers
- Colored Americans
- Colored soldiers
- African Americans
- Miss Maude Gray
- Austin, TX
- recording
- Dear Mr. President
- segregation
- President Franklin Roosevelt
- oral history
