Race and the Military
In 1948 President Harry S. Truman issued an executive order prohibiting racial discrimination in the American armed services to end the practice of segregation and to require equ...
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In April of 1861, the first month of the American Civil War, Alfred M. Green delivered a speech encouraging his fellow African Americans brethren to enlist in the Union Army of the United States of Am...
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African American contributions were not limited to the role of working the fields in the south or supplying labor for industry in the north. Many Negroes in both south and north participated in eith...
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Race and the Military
