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Eisenhower: “Our people do not want to make differentiations among people based upon inconsequential matters of nature involving…”

On the recordMarch 9, 1954
Our people do not want to make differentiations among people based upon inconsequential matters of nature involving color and race.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

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