75 years after desegregation order signed, work remains in United States Armed Forces People of color make up 40% of the military yet remain underrepresented in positions of senior leadership.

On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman ordered desegregation of the U.S. military. On July 26, ... The United States Department of Education said Friday that has opened investigations into ...

President Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of the United States military in 1948, but it took two more years for a special committee to lay out plans for how to do that.

In 1931, swarms of grasshoppers decimated millions of acres of crops throughout the southwestern United States. ... In 1948, President Harry S. Truman ordered desegregation of the U.S. military.

In the absence of that harmony, Falls Church resident Walter Medley, Jr., 95, and the Black enlisted men like him, looked to military service to carve out a life of impact.