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Harry Truman: “No other great nation in the history of the world has done such a thing as that.”

On the recordNovember 14, 1949
No other great nation in the history of the world has done such a thing as that.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Annual Meeting of the National Council of Negro Women, Inc.

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