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"Dear Mr. President" Audio Recording Jacket

Item

Title
"Dear Mr. President" Audio Recording Jacket
Description
Audio Jacket for "Dear Mr. President" interview of black residents in Nashville, TN during the winter of 1942.
Date
1942
Source
Jones, Lewis Wade, Charles Spurgeon Johnson, Mertyl Copeland, W.S. Ellington, Grafton Luby,
Alexander Luvey, Carrie Timberlake, and Pam Tucker. “Dear Mr. President,” Nashville,
TN, January or February. Nashville, TN, 1942. Audio jacket image.
https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1942003_sr39/.
Subject
Racism
World War II
Southern Americans
Black Americans
black soldiers
black servicemen
colored soldiers
colored servicemen
"Dear Mr. President"
President Roosevelt
greatest generation
segregation
discrimination
mistreatment
negro soldiers
negro servicemen