Racial Discrimination, 1946-1947

File — Box: 69, Folder: 1

Identifier: CAC_CC_014_3.2_69_1_0000

Staff Only

Contains constituent correspondence regarding racial injustices and discrimination. Correspondents include Pauli Murray of the American Jewish Congress, William H. Bunch, Chairman of the L.A. Chapter 24 American Veterans Committee, ...Topics include Ingrid Bergman, Jim Crow laws and segregation, housing evictions in Los Angeles, The American League for Free Palestine and the play "A Flag is Born", the Austin-Mahoney bill, Herman Talmadge, "the Columbus incident" regarding a CIO convention being held at the Neal Hotel in Columbus, Ohio, the G.I. Bill of Rights, terminating the Race Relations Service in the Regional Offices of the Housing Expediter, employment in the postal service, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), African-American soldiers, and racial discrimination in the South. Folder includes photocopies of newspaper clippings: "3 of Indian Descent Ordered Evicted on Racial Grounds" from an unknown newspaper; and Letters from the Editor with handwritten annotations from an unknown newspaper. Also includes a photograph of a constituent's home which was sent in by a constituent.