Keywords: Letter from James Washington Mask, Jr. of Hamlet, North Carolina, to The Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt. - NARA - 299752.jpg Scope and content Letter from James Washington Mask Jr of Hamlet North Carolina to President Roosevelt inquiring why Colonel Davis was not promoted when more than one hundred White Colonels were elevated to the rank of brigadier general Reference is made to the recently enacted Selective Training and Service Act which Roosevelt signed had into law on September 16 1940 and the discouraging effect such apparent discrimination would have on the twelve millions of Negro Citizens of the U S on the eve of Natioinal Conscription General notes 299752 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 1940-10-12 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-MASK Other versions <gallery> File Letter_from_James_Washington_Mask _Jr _of_Hamlet _North_Carolina _to_The_Honorable_Franklin_D _Roosevelt _-_NARA_-_299752 tif tif File Letter_from_James_Washington_Mask _Jr _of_Hamlet _North_Carolina _to_The_Honorable_Franklin_D _Roosevelt _-_NARA_-_299752 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Documents related to Franklin Delano Roosevelt |