RACIAL TROUBLE IN U.S.
TRUMAN ADDRESSES NEW COMMITTEE “ALARMED AT CERTAIN HAPPENINGS ” (Rec. 9 p.m.) WASHINGTON*, Jan. 15. Addressing the Civil Rights Committee which he established shortly after 20 armed whites lynched two negroes and their wives in Monroe County, Georgia, on July 26, President Truman asked for help in eliminating race discrimination and religious bigAlfoough he did’ not mention the Ku Klux Klan by name, he recalled that when he was campaigning for a county judgeship in Missouri in 1922, “there was an organisation that met in the hills, burned crosses, and worked behind sheets.” He added: “There is a tendency in this country for that situation to develop again, unless we do something tangible to prevent it. I have been very much alarmed at certain happenings that show that there is a latent spirit in some of us that is not what it ought to be.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25085, 17 January 1947, Page 7
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