U.S. Military Integration Spawned Peerless Fighting Force

Thu Jul 27 2023
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Washington: Seventy-five years ago today, President Harry S. Truman signed two executive orders that, for the first time, desegregated the U.S. military and the federal workforce. 

On July 26, 1948, Truman put his signature on Executive Order 9980, titled “Regulations Governing Fair Employment Practices Within the Federal Establishment.” Following that, he signed Executive Order 9981, titled “Establishing the President’s Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services.” 

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