Keywords: Letter from the Executive Secretary of the Twenty-Eighth Street Branch, Young Men's Christian Association of Los... - NARA - 299751.jpg Scope and content Letter from the Executive Secretary of the Twenty-eighth Street YMCA in Los Angeles to President Roosevelt expressing great concern that Davis a ranking colonel of the Regular Army was not promoted viewing with alarm the practice of the military which limits advancement because of color or race and urging the White House to take action to redress the situation General notes 299751 Local identifier Department of Defense Department of the Army U S Total Army Personnel Command 12/08/1988 - 10/01/2003 NARA's National Personnel Records Center Military Personnel Records NRPM 9700 Page Avenue St Louis MO 63132-5100 1940-10-16 Record group Record Group 319 Records of the Army Staff 1903 - 2009 Record group ARC 633 Official Military Personnel Files compiled 1912 - 1998 Series ARC 299741 File unit Official Military Personnel File of Benjamin O Davis ca 1898 - ca 1948 File unit ARC 299742 Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NRPM-319-OMPF-DAVISBENJ-LAYMCA Other versions <gallery> File Letter_from_the_Executive_Secretary_of_the_Twenty-Eighth_Street_Branch _Young_Men's_Christian_Association_of_Los _-_NARA_-_299751 tif tif File Letter_from_the_Executive_Secretary_of_the_Twenty-Eighth_Street_Branch _Young_Men's_Christian_Association_of_Los _-_NARA_-_299751 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Documents related to Franklin Delano Roosevelt |