HISTORIAN CHARTS SIX DECADES OF RACIAL INTEGRATION IN U.S. MILITARY

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Regulatory Intelligence Data
07-23-2008
WASHINGTON, July 23, 2008 - July 26 marks the 60th anniversary of President
Harry S. Truman's executive order that integrated the U.S. armed forces.
Conrad Crane, director of the U.S. Army Military History Institute at Carlisle
Barracks, Pa., said the order recognized a basic tenet of warfare. "When
your life depends on your buddy, the color of their skin tends to become
less important; it's how good they are," he said. The order came five years
before the Supreme Court's decision in Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education
that struck down the ...

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