Carbon copy of a letter from Virginia Durr to General Wilton B. Persons, White House chief of staff in Washington, D.C.
In the letter, Durr explains the effects of segregation on "dark" international officers who visit Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama: "The simple fact of segregation destroys their whole idea of what America is like, or what they thought America was like. I cannot see how...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/12698 |