Truman signed one of the most consequential documents of the 20th century. Executive Order 9981 desegregated the military years before the Supreme Court or Congress began dismantling Jim Crow in ...

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 ... authority to sign this executive ...

and retired colonel Norma Jean Bradford discussed President Harry Truman’s executive order to desegregate the armed forces on July 26, 1948. Rawn James, author of The Double V: How Wars ...

(7News) — U.S. Army Garrison Fort Belvoir unveiled a new street sign Wednesday "EO 9981" to commemorate Executive Order 9981 ... President Harry Truman signed EO 9981 in 1948 prohibiting ...

Truman. To commemorate this pivotal decision ... On July 26, 1948, he signed Executive Order 9981, desegregating the U.S. armed forces. It established that “There shall be equality of treatment ...

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 forever changed the future course of history for America's military, when on July 26, 1948, he signed Executive Order 9981. With the stroke of a pen, Truman abolished segregation in the ...

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.

Truman and to Executive Order 9981," Powell said in 1998 ... "Because I was 17, my mother had to sign for me to go in and serve. Forty-one-and-a-half years later, here I sit." ...