I've no patience with people who are always whining about the Negro problem. We've got a Negro problem because the Negroes are not yet equal to white people in intelligence and civilization. But they will be someday, and then we won't have a problem.
— Harry Truman Modern

US President, atomic bomb decision

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Conversation with an aide, recorded in a memo

Date / Period

1947

Category

Controversial

Source

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/document-collection/1947-memo-conversation…

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