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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0365-006
Materials in this folder include a letter to Press Secretary Pierre Salinger concerning an upcoming television broadcast and memoranda from Assistant Chief of Protocol Pedro A. Sanjuan to various White House staff concerning the treatment of visiting African diplomats, with specific emphasis on incidents of discriminatory housing practices and prohibited use of public facilities.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0365-005
Materials in this folder include memoranda and correspondence between President John F. Kennedy, Special Assistant to the President Frederick G. Dutton, Assistant Chief of Protocol Pedro A. Sanjuan, and various state and local politicians concerning the treatment of visiting African diplomats, with specific emphasis on incidents of discriminatory housing practices and prohibited use of public facilities.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0365-004
Materials in this folder include telegrams, memoranda, newspaper articles, and correspondence between Assistant Special Counsel to the President Lee C. White, various members of the White House staff, and individual citizens concerning racially motivated violence, the activities of civil rights advocates in Southern states (often referred to as Freedom Riders), and the relocation of Southern African American families to Northern cities (an initiative known as “reverse freedom rides”).
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0365-003
Materials in this folder include telegrams, memoranda, newspaper articles, and correspondence between various members of the White House staff concerning the housing of Southern African American families relocated to Northern cities (an initiative known as “reverse freedom rides”). The folder also contains a transcript of a meeting between Assistant United States Attorney General Byron White, Alabama Governor John Patterson, State Attorney General McDonald Gallion, and State Director of Public Safety Floyd Mann concerning racial relations and public safety in Alabama.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0365-002
Materials in this folder include memoranda and correspondence between President John F. Kennedy, Special Assistant to the President Frederick G. Dutton, and various state and local politicians concerning the treatment of visiting African diplomats, with specific emphasis on incidents of discriminatory housing practices and prohibited use of public facilities.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0365-001
Materials in this folder include reports, memoranda, and correspondence between President John F. Kennedy, Chief of Protocol Angier Biddle Duke, Special Assistant to the President Frederick G. Dutton, and various state and local politicians concerning the treatment of visiting African diplomats, with specific emphasis on incidents of discriminatory housing practices and prohibited use of public facilities.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0364-008
Materials in this folder include telegrams, memoranda, newspaper articles, and correspondence between President John F. Kennedy, Assistant Special Counsel to the President Lee C. White, various members of the White House staff, and individual citizens concerning dropout prevention in educational institutions, pending civil rights legislation, immigration and naturalization legislation, anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, discriminatory housing practices, civil rights efforts concerning American Indians, and racial relations in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0364-007
Materials in this folder include memoranda, newspaper articles, and correspondence between President Kennedy, Assistant Special Counsel to the President Lee C. White, various members of the White House staff, and individual citizens concerning racially motivated violence, pending civil rights legislation, efforts to provide equal employment opportunities for racial and ethnic groups, and psychological and sociological research concerning racial relations.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0364-006
Materials in this folder include telegrams, memoranda, newspaper articles, and correspondence between President John F. Kennedy, Assistant Special Counsel to the President Lee C. White, various members of the White House staff, individual citizens, and school administrators concerning desegregation of educational institutions, discriminatory employment practices, incidents of discrimination against Americans of Mexican descent, and the efforts of women and the Judicial Department in the administration’s civil rights efforts. The folder also contains a petition to the President demanding federal enactment and enforcement of a broad range of civil rights measures, including voting rights, use of public facilities, and equal employment opportunities.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0364-005
Materials in this folder include telegrams, memoranda, newspaper articles, and correspondence between President John F. Kennedy, Assistant Special Counsel to the President Lee C. White, various members of the White House staff, individual citizens, and school administrators concerning dropout prevention for high schools, desegregation of educational institutions, immigration and naturalization legislation, and racial discrimination in the United States military.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0360-002
This folder contains a memorandum from Robert A. Wallace, Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, to Special Assistant to the President Frederick G. Dutton concerning efforts by the United States Coast Guard Academy to broaden recruitment to include members of minority groups.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0360-001
Materials in this folder include memoranda between various members of the White House staff, including Special Assistant to the President Frederick G. Dutton and Special Assistant to the President for Civil Rights Harris Wofford, concerning a civil rights demonstration in Texas, the integration of the National Guard, the activities of the Civil Rights Subcabinet Committee, and President John F. Kennedy’s meetings with civil rights advocates.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0359-013
Materials in this folder include telegrams from the Governors of South Carolina, Mississippi, and Alabama declining an invitation to participate in an Equality of Races meeting; a letter from the President to Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman requesting assistance to farm families who were evicted from their homes in Tennessee; a summary report of actions taken by the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation concerning complaints of racial discrimination at their Marietta, Georgia facility; proposed revision of the functions of the Commissioners’ Council on Human Relations to prohibit discrimination; and correspondence regarding an incident near Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas of racial discrimination against the brother of the Queen of Cambodia.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0359-012
Materials include correspondence regarding a statement made by columnist Walter Winchell on the appointment of Italian-Americans in the Administration, minorities in the United States Navy and Coast Guard Academy, and a memorandum regarding civil rights actions in the Department of Commerce. Of note is a progress report on an earlier report titled “Discrimination and Diplomats” by the Public Affairs unit of the Office of the Chief of Protocol. Also included in this folder are two articles written by the President during his time as a Senator: one titled “Is Your Boy Barred?” for Pageant magazine, July 1954, and the other titled “Take the Academics Out of Politics” for the Saturday Evening Post, June 2, 1956.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0359-011
Materials in this folder include an inquiry into minority representation in the Coast Guard Academy, a summary of nondiscrimination policies for the Housing and Home Finance Agency, a memorandum containing suggested agenda items for executive action to promote civil rights, memoranda concerning racial discrimination in various United States government departments and agencies, and correspondence concerning discrimination in connection with the conference for the Civil War Centennial Commission. Of note is a carbon copy of outgoing correspondence from Special Assistant to the President Kenneth O’Donnell to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. regarding a request by King for a meeting with the President to discuss civil rights.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0359-010
Materials in this folder include outgoing correspondence congratulating people on obtaining United States citizenship and a copy of Resolution No. 17, adopted by the General Assembly of the State of Maryland, declaring former British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill an honorary citizen of Maryland. Also included in this folder is a letter from Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. to United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom David K.E. Bruce regarding the honorary citizenship of Churchill.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0359-009
Materials in this folder include a letter inquiring about the status of United States citizens in Puerto Rico if Puerto Rico should become independent, letters concerning issues of citizenship, the granting of honorary citizenship of the United States to former British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, and outgoing congratulatory letters regarding the obtainment of United States citizenship.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0359-008
Materials in this folder include letters from persons inspired by the President’s Inaugural speech inquiring how they can become better citizens, outgoing congratulatory letters regarding the obtainment of United States citizenship, and a telegram concerning the citizenship of General Robert E. Lee at the time of his death.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0359-007
Materials in this folder include statements made by President Kennedy for the National Conference on Citizenship, correspondence concerning the granting of honorary citizenship of the United States to former British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, letters to various persons congratulating them on obtaining United States citizenship, and letters commending people for their good citizenship.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0359-006
Materials in this folder include letters of support, encouragement, and suggestions for the Administration’s civil rights program from various persons and organizations; and civil rights efforts among organizations and in individual States.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0359-005
Materials in this folder include a copy of a resolution supporting the Civil Rights Commission adopted by the Louisville Commission on Human Relations and a request for an inquiry into the discrimination of Father William O’Connor at the Rock Island Golf Club.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0359-004
Materials in this folder include clippings from the Panama Tribune newspaper on various topics; a copy of statements adopted by the Central Conference of American Rabbis; and a letter from Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division to Representative Hugh J. White of Missouri concerning reports of police misconduct in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0359-003
Materials in this folder include outgoing letters from Deputy Special Counsel to the President Myer Feldman to various persons regarding a proposal by the Maryland Committee for Democratic Rights to investigate problems inherent in the McCarran Act, and letters concerning claims of civil rights violations.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0359-002
Materials in this folder include memoranda from Special Assistant to the President Frederick G. Dutton to various Cabinet Secretaries requesting a report on civil rights problems within their departments, telegrams concerning segregation at the Raleigh-Durham Airport in North Carolina, and a memorandum from Dutton to Special Counsel to the President Ted Sorensen concerning guidance on civil rights policy for certain members of the Administration. Also included in this folder is the 40th annual report by the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) titled “By the People.”
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0359-001
Materials in this folder include memoranda concerning the lack of minorities in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard Academy, the institution of a monthly meeting of Subcabinet representatives to discuss civil rights work within government agencies, and letters from various persons detailing personal civil rights violations. Also included in this folder are letters from the Rhode Island AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor, Congress of Industrial Organization) and the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America informing the President of civil rights resolutions adopted by the organizations.