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On June 29, 1947, President Harry Truman addressed the NAACP 38th Annual Convention audience of 10,000 from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, the first president ever to do so. He declared in a speech broadcast nationally by radio that the federal government must take the lead in guaranteeing the civil rights of all Americans. On October 29 the President’s Committee on Civil Rights released its report, To Secure These Rights. Among the recommendations were an anti-lynching law, the abolition of the poll tax, a permanent Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC), the desegregation of the military, and laws to enforce fair housing, education, health care, and employment.
On June 29, 1947, President Harry Truman addressed the NAACP 38th Annual Convention audience of 10,000 from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, the first president ever to do so. He declared in a speech broadcast nationally by radio that the federal government must take the lead in guaranteeing the civil rights of all Americans. On October 29 the President’s Committee on Civil Rights released its report, To Secure These Rights. Among the recommendations were an anti-lynching law, the abolition of the poll tax, a permanent Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC), the desegregation of the military, and laws to enforce fair housing, education, health care, and employment.