The ability of the media to portray brutal repression of the Southern African Americans, and in parallel, speeches by Civil ...

Arguably, the two most consequential actions for our military in the 20th century were President Harry Truman’s Executive Order 9981 directing the desegregation of the U.S. Armed Forces in July 1948, ...

Truman issued Executive Order 9981 to desegregate the military in 1948. He appointed a committee of diverse Americans to report on progress in 1950, the Freedom to Serve Report.