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 |
| Summary: | 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 the U.S. Government can be put in a position like this, and cannot protect its own uniform and the men in the uniform of its allies against some cheap local politicians, especially when they bring ninety million dollars a year into the community and Montgomery would dry up and be a little cow town if it were not for the Air Force." |
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