And I'll always believe that in spite of what was done back in 1948, Harry Truman, what he did in 1948, when they integrated the armed services, when Franklin Roosevelt had refused to do so, it was. Truman was the first president to address the national convention of the NAACP. those movements. On this part, it was Truman who introduced the first resolution to create civil rights committees to look at this stuff that started in 1948, but it all culminated with Lyndon Johnson's election of 1964. (14:32–14:39)
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