Executive Order 9981 desegregated the military years before the Supreme Court or Congress began dismantling Jim Crow in earnest. Truman decided to take this action as reports of beatings and ...

Librarian of Congress' Carla Hayden hosted a conversation marking President Harry Truman's desegregation of the United States military with Executive Order 9981 on July 26, 1948. Her guests were ...

As we mark 75 years since the signing of Executive Order 9981, we find ourselves reflecting on the significance of President Harry S. Truman's trailblazing mandate to abolish racial segregation ...

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On July 26, 1948, President Truman also used executive orders to expand citizenship and civil rights for Black Americans by ordering the desegregation of the military in Executive Order 9981.

Rawn James, author of The Double V: How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America’s Military, and retired colonel Norma Jean Bradford discussed President Harry Truman’s executive ...

That didn’t all change in a single day, but the tide most certainly turned when President Truman issued Executive Order 9981 on July 26, 1948, formally integrating the nation’s armed forces.

U.S. Army Garrison Fort Belvoir unveiled a new street sign to commemorate Executive Order 9981, which desegregated the military 75 years ago.

Fighting for racial equality in the military 11:28. The late Colin Powell was only 11 years old when President Truman issued an executive order ending segregation in the armed forces.

July 26 marks the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9981, President Harry Truman’s order desegregating America’s armed forces. That directive helped shape the U.S. military into what it is ...

Truman’s executive order evolved from a confluence of circumstances, including growing Cold War pressures, concerns over military manpower, election year gamesmanship, activism by civil rights ...