Against Jim Crow in Military Service, 1948

. . . The date for registration under the draft is only a month away and it is the hope of all Negro youth that there will be an alternative beyond submission to a discriminatory law and imprisonment for following the dictates of self-respect.

Against Jim Crow in Military Service 1948

This letter urged President Truman to end segregation in the military. Civil rights activists threatened that African Americans would avoid the military draft if he did not.

National Archives, Harry S. Truman Library