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Telegram from March on Washington Movement to President Franklin D. Roosevelt

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March on Washington Movement

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Petitioning for a conference with the president "at the earliest possible date" to address and counteract "the new danger that threatens FEPC"; signed by Walter White, Channing H. Tobias, Lester Granger, Frank R. Corosswaith, Morris Milgram, Sidney Goldstein, Max Yergan, Ann Arnold Hedgeman, and Movement Director A. Philip Randolph.
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Discrimination
  3. Discrimination In Employment
  4. Employment

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