Editor’s Note: On July 26, 1948, President Harry Truman issued Executive Order 9981, effectively desegregating the U.S. military. The move was a key event in the history of the U.S. military and the ...

Sixty-nine years ago on July 26, 1948, President Harry Truman issued an executive order abolishing racial discrimination in the United States armed forces. "It is hereby declared to be the policy of ...

President Harry S. Truman at his desk in 1945. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division) On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed one of the most consequential documents of the ...

After Donald Trump announced his intention to reinstate the previously-reversed ban on transgender people serving in the U.S. military, many, many people responded the exact same way: By pointing out ...

In 1944, Glen Cove native William Johnson took a train to Alabama for flight training at Tuskegee Army Airfield. He and the rest of the black troops had to sit apart from the white troops, in the soot ...

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 within ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, July 24, 2008) -- On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9981, establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and ...

The 75th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s decision to desegregate the U.S. military helps put today’s discourse on the future of diversity, equity and inclusion practices into remarkable ...

Sixty-nine years ago , civil rights activist A. Philip Randolph celebrated as President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981 to desegregate the military. It had been a long journey for Randolph ...

FORT BELVOIR, Va. (7News) — U.S. Army Garrison Fort Belvoir unveiled a new street sign Wednesday "EO 9981" to commemorate Executive Order 9981, which desegregated the military 75 years ago. Fairfax ...

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Sixty-nine years ago on July 26, 1948, President Harry Truman issued an executive order abolishing racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces. "It is hereby declared to be the policy of ...