I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other.

I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other.

I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because as the French people know that I was born in St. Louis, thinking I would be very proud to announce it to the public, they gave me the news first. I was then starring in the 'Folies Bergere.'

I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.

Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.

Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.

We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?