Crossword-Solution: CMH 3 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Both in Nichols Collection, CMH.] Judge Hastie spent his first ten months in office observing what was happening to the Negro in the Army.

Although these interviews were conducted a quarter of a century after the event and in the wake of the modern civil rights movement, they provide useful insight to the attitude of black soldiers toward discrimination in the services.] [Footnote 2-61: Office of War Information, The Negroes' Role in the War: A Study of White and Colored Opinions (Memorandum 59, Surveys Division, Bureau of Special Services), 8 Jul 43, in CMH.] Some Army officials considered justification by statistics alone a risky business.

Sec also Ltr, Nelson to author, 10 Feb 70, CMH files.] During the first six months of the new segregated training program, before the great influx of Negroes from the draft, the Navy set the training period at twelve weeks.

See also _Christopher Smith Sargent, 1911-1946_, a privately printed memorial prepared by the Sargent family in 1947, copy in CMH.] During its first months of existence the Special Programs Unit tried to quiet racial unrest by a rigorous application of the separate but equal principle.

Both in GenRecsNav.] [Footnote 3-71: Interv, Lee Nichols with Lester Granger, 1953, in Nichols Collection, CMH.] Secretary Knox often referred to Adlai Stevenson as "my New Dealer," and, as the expression suggested, the Illinois lawyer was in an excellent position to influence the secretary's thinking.[3-72] Although not so forceful an advocate as Christopher Sargent, Stevenson lent his considerable intelligence and charm to the support of those in the department who sought equal opportunity for the Negro.