Box U.04

Includes a clipping from The AFRO-American, December 4, 1943 with photographs of distinguished soldiers. Includes a clipping with title "What the War Means to the Negro." Includes 1943 press release from U.S. War Department titled "Negro Soldiers have earned share of honors in battle"

Includes 1930 coverage of the pilgrimage of the first group of Gold Star Mothers and Widows to Paris, France. The pilgrimage included 54 colored American war mothers who arrived in a jim crow freighter.

Includes H.R. 3777, a bill to assure persons within the United States the equal protection of the law, and to punish the crime of lynching, H.R. 1655, a bill to create a Negro Industrial Commission S. 3302, a bill to authorize the erection of a United States Veterans' Administration hospital for colored veterans, and H.R. 8821, a bill to amend the Transportation Act to prohibit segregation of interstate passengers.

The U.S. Information Agency denied that it had forbidden use of the term "War on Poverty" in materials distributed overseas.

Includes clipping with title "Puerto Rico" and subheading "The U.S. is spending $40 million to make our Caribbean possession a bastion of defense. But the island's sick economy is bad advertising for the Good Neighbor policy." Also includes publication titled "Philippine Independence: A Survey of the Present State of American Public Opinion on the Subject, as Expressed in Editorial Comment Throughout the United States During the Past Twelve Months"