History of the United States II / Unit 13 USH2 1808 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Desegregating the Armed Forces
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The idea
On July twenty-sixth, nineteen forty-eight, Truman's Executive Order ninety-nine eighty-one required equal treatment and opportunity in the armed forces without regard to race.
In practice
A military the Yawp called a Jim Crow institution ordered to integrate.
Where people slip
The anchor says Truman overrode objections that the armed forces were no place for social experiment. Roosevelt's order eighty-eight oh two of unit twelve was the precedent.
Your place on the trail
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