Footnote 12-77: Interv, Nichols with Ewing; Interv, Blumenson with Leva. Donahue resigned for health reasons shortly after the committee began its work; see Ltr, Donahue to Truman, 23 May 49, Truman Library. Luckman did not participate at all in the committee's work or sign its report. The committee's active members, in addition to its chairman, were Granger, Sengstacke, Palmer, and Stevenson.[(Back)]
Footnote 13-1: Columbia University Oral Hist Interv with Wilkins.[(Back)]
Footnote 13-2: Chicago Defender, August 7 and August 14, 1948.[(Back)]
Footnote 13-3: Pittsburgh Courier, August 7, August 28, and September 25, 1948.[(Back)]
Footnote 13-4: Chicago Defender, August 21, 1948.[(Back)]
Footnote 13-5: New York Times, September 12, 1948.[(Back)]
Footnote 13-6: Memo, Donald Dawson for President, 9 Sep 48, Nash Collection, Truman Library; Memo, SecDef for [Clark] Clifford, 2 Aug 48, and Ltr, Bayard Rustin of the Campaign to Resist Military Segregation to James V. Forrestal, 20 Aug 48; both in D54-1-14, SecDef files. It should be noted that Dawson's claim that the black press universally supported the executive order has not been accepted by all commentators; see McCoy and Ruetten, Quest and Response, p. 130.[(Back)]
Footnote 13-7: Bradley succeeded Eisenhower as Chief of Staff on 7 February 1948.[(Back)]
Footnote 13-8: Washington Post, July 28, 1948; Atlanta Constitution, July 28, 1948.[(Back)]
Footnote 13-9: News Conference, 29 Jul 48, Public Papers of the Presidents: Harry S. Truman, 1948, p. 165; New York Times, July 30, 1948; Chicago Defender, August 7, 1948; Pittsburgh Courier, August 21, 1948; Washington Post, August 23, 1948.[(Back)]