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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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 ...

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.

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.

Executive Order 9981 not only opened the door of opportunity for people from all walks if life, it showed the strength that there is in diversity, Becton said.

Harry Truman’s Executive Order 9981 (1948): This order declared that “there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, ...

Two years before President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order to desegregate the armed forces, a black World War II veteran in uniform was pulled from a bus in Batesburg, S.C., and severely ...