President Harry S. Truman addresses the closing session of the 38th annual conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C. In this photo, President Truman is in the background, chatting, as Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt leaves the podium area.
This document was identified by teachers in our Primarily Teaching 2016 Summer Workshop at the Truman Library.This primary source comes from the Collection HST-AVC: Audiovisual Collection.
National Archives Identifier:
199711Full Citation: Photograph 73-2557; Truman at closing session of conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.; 1/29/1947; Photographs Relating to the Administration, Family, and Personal Life of Harry S. Truman, 1957 - 2004; Collection HST-AVC: Audiovisual Collection; Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, MO. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/truman-at-the-closing-session-of-the-naacp-conference, April 24, 2025]