Establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services WHEREAS it is essential that there be maintained in the armed services of the United States ...
Two Wars | The Road to Integration tackles the topic of segregation and eventual integration of the United States Military. Since the earliest days of the Republic, African Americans have been ...
Shep Melnick: The 1954 United States Supreme Court decision in the Brown v. Board of Education case paving the way for school desegregation was a historic milestone in the nation’s quest for civil ...
The U.S. Air Force has removed training courses for service members that included historical videos of its storied Black ...
In July 1948, when President Harry S. Truman signed the executive order ending segregation in the military, Leftenant-Colon saw it as an opportunity to get regular status in the Army Nurse Corps ...