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The Double V How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America's Military

ISBN: 9781608196081 | 1608196089
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date: 1/22/2013

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Executive Order 9981, issued by President Harry Truman on July 26, 1948, desegregated all branches of the United States military by decree. EO 9981 is often portrayed as a heroic and unexpected move by Truman. But in reality, Truman's history-making order was the culmination of more than 150 years of legal, political, and moral struggle. Beginning with the Revolutionary War, African Americans had used military service to do the... MORE
A graduate of Yale University and Duke University School of Law, Rawn James, Jr., has practiced law for a decade in Washington, D.C., where he lives with his wife and their children.


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