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Truman receiving gift from McGrath

President Harry S. Truman, left, presented with a framed copy of a Zionist resolution which thanked him for his work on behalf of the recognition of the state of Israel. Senator J. Howard McGrath (right), Democrat from Rhode Island, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, made the presentation for the Zionist Organization of Portland, Oregon.

President Harry S. Truman Meets with African American Leaders

President Harry S. Truman meeting with a group of African-American leaders, who urged President Truman to put qualified African-Americans into administrative and policy-making jobs in the government as part of a broad program for greater participation by African-Americans in the Defense Program. President Truman in seated in center. Those in attendance were: William Y. Bell; Mary McLeod Bethune (seated, left); J. Robert Booker; A. Philip Randolph; Dowdal Davis; Lester Granger; Elmer Henderson; Charles S. Johnson; Benjamin E. Mays; Channing H. Tobias; Willard S.

President Harry S. Truman Receives the Committee on Civil Rights Report

President Harry S. Truman is receiving a report from the Committee on Civil Rights from Charles Wilson. Standing, from left to right: Most Reverend Francis J. Haas, Roland B. Gittelsohn, Dr. Sadie T. Alexander, James B. Carey, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Dorothy Rogers Tilly, Channing H. Tobias, Charles Wilson, Boris Shishkin, Charles Luckman, and Francis P. Matthews.